\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{TME520 (TME520)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (top-30-linux-shell-tricks.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (TME520 (TME520)) /Subject (Top 30 linux shell tricks 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}{17A32E} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F0F9F1} \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{Top 30 linux shell tricks Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{TME520 (TME520)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/20978/cs/17483/}}} \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}TME520 (TME520) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/tme520} \\ \uline{\seqsplit{tme520}.com} \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 17th October, 2018.\\ Updated 1st December, 2018.\\ 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{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{8.635 cm} x{8.635 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Top 30}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Run the last command as root}} & `sudo !!` \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Serve current directory tree at http://\$HOSTNAME:8000/}} & `python -m SimpleHTTPServer` \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Runs previous command but replacing}} & `echo "Hello Morld"` \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & `\textasciicircum{}Morld\textasciicircum{}World` \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & `echo "Hello World"` \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Rapidly invoke an editor to write a long command}} & `{[}ctrl+x e{]}` \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Place the argument of the most recent command on the shell}} & `'ALT+.' or '\textless{}ESC\textgreater{} .'` \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Salvage a borked terminal}} & `reset` \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{List currently mounted filesystems in nice layout}} & `mount | column -t` \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Get your external IP address}} & `curl ifconfig.me` \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Execute a command at a given time}} & ` echo "ls -l" | at midnight` \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{8.635 cm} x{8.635 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Top 30 (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Output your microphone to a remote computer's speaker}} & `dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp` \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Type partial command, check something, resume typing}} & `vi /etc/ssh/ {[}ctrl+u{]}` \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & `ls -lisa /etc/ssh/` \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} & `{[}ctrl+y{]} vi \seqsplit{/etc/ssh/ssh\_config`} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Mount folder/filesystem through SSH}} & `sshfs \seqsplit{name@server:/path/to/folder} \seqsplit{/path/to/mount/point`} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Mount a temporary ram partition}} & `mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt -o size=1024m` \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Download an entire website}} & `wget -{}-random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U mozilla \seqsplit{http://www.example.com`} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Clear the terminal screen}} & `{[}ctrl+l{]}` \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 19 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Compare a remote file with a local file}} & `ssh user@host cat /path/to/remotefile | diff /path/to/localfile -` \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 4) % Row 20 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Update twitter via curl}} & `curl -u user:pass -d status="Tweeting from the shell" \seqsplit{http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml`} \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 5) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{8.635 cm} x{8.635 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Top 30 (cont)}} \tn % Row 21 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{SSH connection through host in the middle}} & `ssh -t reachable\_host ssh unreachable\_host` \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 22 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Close shell keeping all subprocess running}} & `disown -a \&\& exit` \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 23 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Make 'less' behave like 'tail -f'}} & `less +F somelogfile` \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 24 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Put a console clock in top right corner}} & `while sleep 1;do tput sc;tput cup 0 \$((\$(tput \seqsplit{cols)-29));date;tput} rc;done \&` \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 4) % Row 25 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Shutdown a Windows machine from Linux}} & `net rpc shutdown -I \seqsplit{ipAddressOfWindowsPC} -U username\%password` \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 4) % Row 26 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{List of commands you use most often}} & `history | awk '\{a{[}\$2{]}++\}END\{for(i in a)\{print a{[}i{]} " " i\}\}' | sort -rn | head` \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 27 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{32 bits or 64 bits?}} & `getconf LONG\_BIT` \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) % Row 28 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online}} & `ping -i 60 -a IP\_address` \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 4) % Row 29 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Reboot machine when everything is hanging}} & `\textless{}alt\textgreater{} + \textless{}print screen/sys rq\textgreater{} + \textless{}R\textgreater{} - \textless{}S\textgreater{} - \textless{}E\textgreater{} - \textless{}I\textgreater{} - \textless{}U\textgreater{} - \textless{}B\textgreater{}` \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 4) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{8.635 cm} x{8.635 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Top 30 (cont)}} \tn % Row 30 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Simulate typing}} & ` echo "You can simulate on-screen typing just like in the movies" | pv -qL 10` \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 31 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Quickly rename a file}} & `mv filename.\{old,new\}` \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 32 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Escape any command aliases}} & `\textbackslash{}{[}command{]}` \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 33 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension}} & `rm !({\emph{.foo|}}.bar|*.baz)` \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{17.67cm}{x{8.635 cm} x{8.635 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{17.67cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Bonus: Tricks of the ancient UNIX masters}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Reuse all parameter of the previous command line}} & `!*` \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Sharing file through http 80 port}} & `nc -v -l 80 \textless{} file.ext` \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Display a block of text with AWK}} & `awk '/start\_pattern/,/stop\_pattern/' file.txt` \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Kills a process that is locking a file}} & `fuser -k filename` \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Display all current terminal settings}} & `stty -a` \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \{\{nobreak\}\}{\bf{Type a string, hit {[}ctrl+d{]} and see the ASCII codes}} & `od -cx` \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \end{document}