\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{roliu} \pdfinfo{ /Title (linux-commands-cheat-sheet.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (roliu) /Subject (Linux Commands Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{22A356} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F1F9F4} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Linux Commands Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{roliu} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/133059/cs/27042/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}roliu \\ \uline{cheatography.com/roliu} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 11th March, 2021.\\ Updated 11th March, 2021.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.6 cm} x{4.4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Commands}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ls}} & - list files in the directory \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{ls -al}} & - list long formatted files with hidden files \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{cd}} & - return to home directory \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{pwd}} & - display current working directory \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{touch file}} & - create or update file \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{mkdir dir}} & - create a new directory dir \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{rm file}} & - remove file \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{nano file}} & - edit the file using Nano's editor \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{mv file1 file2/dir}} & - rename file1 to file2 or move file1 to dir \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{rmdir dir}} & - remove empty directory dir \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{rm -r dir}} & - remove directory dir \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{cp file1 file2}} & - copy file1 to file2 \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{cp -r dir1 dir2}} & - copy directory dir1 to dir2 and create dir2 if it does not exist \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.76 cm} x{4.24 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Permissions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{chmod file}} & - change file permission \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{chmod u-w file}} & - remove the writable permission from file to user \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{chmod 777 file}} & - give read, write, execute permission to all \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{~~Operator for chmod} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{ac\}\}+ & add the specified modes \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{ac\}\}- & Remove the specified modes from file or dir \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{ac\}\}= & Set the specified modes \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{chown user:group file}} & - change the ownership of file \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.52 cm} x{4.48 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Users and Groups}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{groupadd group}} & - add a new group \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{useradd -g group nUser}} & - add a new user to group \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{usermod -g group eUser}} & - add an existing user to group \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{lid -g group}} & - list all the users in the group \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{All the above commands require superuser privileges.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.68 cm} x{4.32 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Network}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ping host}} & - ping host \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{wget file}} & - download file \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.28 cm} x{4.72 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{System Info}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{whoami}} & - display the login username \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{uname -a}} & - display all the system information \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{whereis app}} & - show possible locations of app \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{which app}} & - shows the full path of the app \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{df -h}} & - show file system disk space usage with human-readable storage size \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{du -d0 -h dir}} & - display the directory space usage without displaying subdirectories \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.96 cm} x{5.04 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Process Management}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{ps}} & - display current active processes \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{top}} & - display all running processes \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{kill pid}} & - kill a process by ID \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{killall procname}} & - kill a process by a name \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{4 cm} x{4 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Compression}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{tar -cvf file.tar files/dir}} & - create a tar file to archive the files/dir and display the progress in the terminal. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{tar -xzvf file.tar.gz -C dir}} & - extract a tar using Gzip to directory dir \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{tar -czf file.gz file.tar}} & - compress the file.tar to file.gz using Gzip \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{gzip file}} & - compress file and rename it to file.gz \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{gzip -d file.gz}} & - decompress file.gz back to file \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.84 cm} x{4.16 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Searching}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{grep {\emph{pattern}} files}} & - search for pattern in files, * denotes all the files \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {\bf{grep -r {\emph{pattern}} dir}} & - search for the pattern in dir \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{grep -i {\emph{pattern}} file}} & - ignore the case and search for the pattern \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{command | grep pattern}} & - search for the pattern in the output of command \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{locate file}} & - find all instances of file by name \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{A {\emph{regular expression}} is used to describes a particular search {\emph{pattern}} .} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.8 cm} x{5.2 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Redirection}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{\textgreater{} file}} & - output operator to overwrite the file \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{\textgreater{}\textgreater{} file}} & - append operator to append the text at the end of the file \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{|}} & - pipe operator to take the output from the preceding command to be the input of the following command \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}