Basic Linux Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by ravirj0601

mkdir	To create a Directory
rmdir	To remove a Directory
cd	To Change a Directory
cd ..	To go one Directory back
pwd	Print name of curren­t/w­orking directory
cd Documents/	To change the directory to Documents

ls	To see content of the current dir
ls -al	To see all files of the current dir
ls -htl	List content with human readable size formate and sort by modifi­cation time, newest first

cp file1 /path/­Des­tin­ation	To copy a content to another Directory
cp -r file2/ /path/­Des­tin­ation	To copy a Directory

mv [options] <so­urc­e> <de­sti­nat­ion>	Syntax
mv Dir1 <../­De­sti­nat­ion>	To move a file/D­ire­ctory from one place to anothe place

tar -cvzf Codeba­se.t­ar.gz	To archive Codebase Dir to the Codeba­se.t­ar.gz formate
tar -cvjf Codeba­se.t­ar.bz2	To archive Codebase Dir to the Codeba­se.t­ar.bz2 formate
tar -xvf Codeba­se.t­ar.bz2	To extract the any formate of tar file.

netscan	To see all IP's and MAC addresses on the Network
ssh -X userna­me@­IP_­address	To remotely acess the another machine on the network
scp Codeba­se.t­ar.bz2 userna­me@­IP_­add­res­s:/­hom­e/r­ov/­Dow­nloads	To copy a file local machine to remote machine.
scp -r userna­me@­IP_­add­res­s:/­hom­e/r­ov/­Dow­nloads	To copy a Directory from remote machine to local machine

pidof <Pr­oce­ss_­Nam­e>	Syntax
pidof node	To know to the process id of the process name
top	To see real time process
sudo kill -9 <PI­D>	To kill the PID of the specified Process
sudo killall proces­s_name	To kill all the process related to this name