\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{silkgoat} \pdfinfo{ /Title (linux-commands-cheat-sheet.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (silkgoat) /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}{9E9E9E} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F8F8F8} \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}{silkgoat} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/78018/cs/19067/}}} \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}silkgoat \\ \uline{cheatography.com/silkgoat} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 11th March, 2019.\\ 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{2.64 cm} x{5.36 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{System}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} cat /proc|/sys & Print the content of kernel memory \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} df & Display free disk space \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} dmesg & Print kernel and driver messages \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} dmidecode & Display hardware information from the BIOS \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} du & Estimate file/directory space usage \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} free/vmstat & Display memory usage \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} lshw / lspci / lsusb & Display hardware information \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} strace & Trace system calls and signals of a process \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} sync & Synchronize data on disk with memory \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} uname & Print system information \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.36 cm} x{6.64 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} cat & Print the content of a file \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} cmp & Compare two files byte by byte \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} diff & Compare files line by line \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} file & Determine file type \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} head & Output the first part of a file \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} less & Display output one screen at a time \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} more & Display output one screen at a time \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} sort & Sort text file \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} tail & Output the last part of a file \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} tee & Redirect output to multiple files \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} touch & Change file timestamp/create empty file \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{truncate} & Shrink or extend the size of a file \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} which & Locate a command on \$PATH (and in aliases) \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2 cm} x{6 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Users}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} getent passwd & Get user entries from NSS \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} id & Print real and effective user and group \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{1.04 cm} x{6.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Shell}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} env & Display current user environment variables \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} false & Do nothing, unsuccessfully \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{source} & Read and execute commands from filename \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} true & Do nothing, successfully \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{1.04 cm} x{6.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Search}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} find & Search for files in a directory hierarchy \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} grep & Find pattern in a file by lines \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{locate} & Find files (in locatedb generated by updatedb) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.2 cm} x{6.8 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Network}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} arp & Manipulate system arp cache \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} dig & DNS lookup utility \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ip & Manipulate network interfaces settings \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} mtr & Network diagnostics \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{netstat} & Print network statistics \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} ping & Send ICMP echo requests to network hosts \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{tcpdump} & Dump network traffic \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{1.04 cm} x{6.96 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Processes}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} kill & Send a signal to a process \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} lsof & List open files \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} pkill & Send a signal to a process by name or other attributes \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} pmap & Report memory map of a process \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ps & Report a snapshot of a current process \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{pstree} & Display the process tree \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} watch & Execute a program periodically and capture the output \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}