Linux Cheat Sheet by Spudguy

CTRL+C

Stop Current Command

CTRL+A

Move Cursor to Start of the Line

CTRL+U

Cut from Start of Line to Cursor

CTRL+R

Search Through Command History

fg

Bring Last Background Command to Foreground

!abc

Run the Last Command with the String Starting with abc

^abc­&123

Run the Previous Command, Replacing abc with 123

date

Show System Data

cmd1­;cmd2

Run cmd1 then cmd2

cmd &

Run Command in the Background (Output will be Printed to the Screen)

find /dir/ -name name*

Find Files Starting with name Under the /dir/ Directory

find /dir/ -mmin num

Find Files Modified Less than num Minutes ago in the /dir/ Directory

grep -l pattern files

Search for Lines in the File which Match the Pattern (Case Insens­itive)

cut -d " " -f "­1"

cut is used to only display the parts of a line you are interested in. In this example, the delimiter is a space, (-d “ “) and we are only interested in the first entry, (-f “1”). You can select multiple entries by separating with a comma, (-f “1,2,3”)

pwd

Print Working Directory

cd dir

Change Directory to dir

ls -a

List Files and Direct­ories Including Hidden

ls -r

List Files and Direct­ories in Reverse Order

ls -1

List Files and Direct­ories 1 Per Line

ls -!

List Files and Direct­ories Quoted Output