Bash Dev Cheat Sheet by tertioptus

List all directory contents in long data form ls -al directory

Find all java files by extension find directory -name pattern

Find all indexed paths in updatedb locate option pattern

Finds source, binary and manual files: whereis filename

Shows full path of command which -a filename

Change directory cd

Remove directory rmdir

Move directory mv source destin­ation

Remove all files recurs­ively rm -rf

Copy directory or file cp source destin­ation

Create shortcut ln -s path alias

Create directory mkdir directory name

Create empty file or update time stamp. touch filename

Variable string echo string

Number­ed-line text cat -n filepath

Scrollable number­ed-line text less -N filepath

Current directory pwd

Beginning of a file head

End of a file tail

Count: character, word and line wc

Directory hierarchy tree path

Create repository git init

Untrack files git rm --cached filename

Get remote repository git clone url

Stage all files git add --all

Push commits to remote repo git push alias branch

Pull changes from remote repo git pull alias branch

Show log git log