\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{Sky11} \pdfinfo{ /Title (linux.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Sky11) /Subject (Linux 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}{1C64A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F0F5F9} \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 Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Sky11} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/190795/cs/39698/}}} \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}Sky11 \\ \uline{cheatography.com/sky11} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 27th July, 2023.\\ Updated 27th July, 2023.\\ 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}{p{0.96 cm} x{7.04 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{{\bf{File and Directory Management}}}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ls & List files and directories. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} cd & Change the current directory. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} pwd & Print the working directory. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} touch & Create an empty file. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} mkdir & Create a new directory. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} rm & Remove files or directories. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} cp & Copy files or directories. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} mv & Move or rename files or directories. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 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}{Package Management}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} apt / apt-get & Package management for Debian-based systems. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} yum & Package management for Red Hat-based systems. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} dnf & Package management for Fedora and CentOS. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} zypper & Package management for openSUSE. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.16 cm} x{5.84 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Compression and Archiving}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} tar & Archive files. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} gzip / gunzip & Compress or decompress files. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} zip / unzip & Create or extract zip archives. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} bzip2 / bunzip2 & Compress or decompress files with bzip2. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} xz / unxz & Compress or decompress files with xz. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.28 cm} x{6.72 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Process Management}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ps & Display currently running processes. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} kill & Terminate processes. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} top & Monitor system processes in real-time. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} ps aux & Show detailed process information. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{killall} & Terminate processes by name. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 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}{File Permissions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} chmod & Change file permissions. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} chown & Change file owner and group. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} umask & Set default file permissions for new files. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} chgrp & Change group ownership of a file or directory. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{lsattr} & List file attributes. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 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}{Miscellaneous}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} date & Display or set the system date and time. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{history} & View command history. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} man & Display the manual pages for commands. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} cal & Display a calendar. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} who & Show who is logged on. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{uptime} & Show system uptime. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} watch & Execute a command repeatedly and display results. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.48 cm} x{5.52 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Viewing and Editing}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} cat & Concatenate and display file contents. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} more / less & View file contents one page at a time. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} nano / vim / emacs & Text editors for file editing. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} head & Display the beginning of a file. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} tail & Display the end of a file. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} wc & Count lines, words, and characters in a file. \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} sed & Stream editor for text manipulation. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 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}{Networking}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ping & Check network connectivity to a host. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} ifconfig / ip & Network interface configuration. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ssh & Securely connect to a remote machine. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} scp & Securely copy files between machines. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} netstat & Network statistics and active connections. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} nslookup & Query DNS servers for DNS-related information. \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} curl & Transfer data from or to a server. \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} wget & Download files from the web. \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.76 cm} x{6.24 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{System Information}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} uname & Display system information. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} df & Disk space usage. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} free & Display memory usage. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} uptime & Show system uptime. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{lsb\_release} & Display Linux Standard Base (LSB) information. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} lscpu & Display CPU information. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} lshw & List hardware information. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} lsblk & List block devices. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.8 cm} x{7.2 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Text Processing}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} grep & Search for text in files. \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} sed & Stream editor for text manipulation. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} awk & Text processing and pattern matching. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} cut & Remove sections from each line of a file. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} sort & Sort lines of text files. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} tr & Translate characters in a file. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} comm & Compare two sorted files line by line. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.64 cm} x{5.36 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{User Management}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} useradd / adduser & Create a new user. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} passwd & Change user password. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} usermod & Modify user account settings. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} userdel & Delete a user account. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} id & Display user and group information. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} groups & Show group membership for a user. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}