\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{tteengx} \pdfinfo{ /Title (os.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (tteengx) /Subject (OS 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}{A3A3A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \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{OS Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{tteengx} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/118200/cs/21838/}}} \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}tteengx \\ \uline{cheatography.com/tteengx} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 19th April, 2023.\\ Updated 19th April, 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*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} i - insert at cursor (goes into insert mode) & ESC - Terminate insert mode \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} a - write after cursor (goes into insert mode) & u - undo last change \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} A - Write at the end of line (goes into insert mode) & U - undo all changes to the entire line \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} dd - delete line & o - open a new line (goes into insert mode \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 3dd - delete 3 lines & C - delete contents of a line after the cursor and insert new text \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} dw - delete word & r - replace character \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 4dw - delete 4 words & R - overwrite characters from cursor onward \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} cw - change word & s - substitute one character under cursor continue to insert \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x - delete character at the cursor & S - Substitute entire line and begin to insert at the beginning of the line \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\textasciitilde{}\textasciitilde{} change case of individual character} \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.43873 cm} x{2.53827 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor - moving with a file}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} k - move cursor up & h - move cursor left \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} j - move cursor down & l - move cursor right \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.78712 cm} x{2.18988 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor - Saving and Closing the file}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Shift+zz: save the file and quit & :q - quit without saving \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} :w - save the file but keep it open & :wq - save the file and quit \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Misc}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textgreater{} : send output to file or another device & \textgreater{}\textgreater{} : appends new file to an existing file \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textless{} : reverse redirection, takes input for program from existing file instead of keyboard & \textgreater{} : redirection, combined with system commands to achieve any desired results \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} !! : current history & wc : word count \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.63781 cm} x{2.33919 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Bash/Nano Shortcuts}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Ctrl-c: stop current command & Ctrl-a: go to start of line \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Ctrl-z: sleep program & Ctrl-e: go to end of line \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Ctrl-u: cut from start of line & Ctrl-k: cut to end of line \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Ctrl-R: read file & Ctrl-O: save file \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Alt-A; start marking text & Ctrl-X: close file \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Ctrl-K: cut marked text or line & Ctrl-U: paste text \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ALT-/ End of file & CTRL-E: End of line \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} CTRL-A: Beginning of line & CTRL-C: Show line number \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} CTRL-W: Find & ALT-W: Find next \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{CTRL-\textbackslash{}: Search and replace} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{User Information and Management}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Display the user and group ids of your current user. & \# Display the last users who have logged onto the system. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} id & last \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Show who is logged into the system. & \# Show who is logged in and what they are doing. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} who & w \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Create a group named "test". & \# Create an account named john, with a comment of "John Smith" and create the user's home directory. \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 6) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} groupadd test & useradd -c "John Smith" -m john \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Delete the john account. & \# Add the john account to the sales group \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} userdel john & usermod -aG sales john \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.53827 cm} x{2.43873 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{System Information}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \#Display Linux system information & \#Show system host name \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} uname -a & hostname \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \#Display kernel release information & \# Display the IP addresses of the host \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} uname -r & hostname -I \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Show which version of redhat installed & \#Show the current date and time date \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} cat /etc/redhat-release & date \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Who you are logged in as & \# Display who is online \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} whoami & w \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Show this month's calendar & \# Show system host name \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} cal & hostname \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Search + SSH Logins}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \#Search for pattern in file: grep pattern file & \# Search recursively for pattern in directory: grep -r pattern directory \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \# Find files and directories by name: locate name & \# Find files in /home/john that start with "prefix": find /home/john -name 'prefix*' \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Find files larger than 100MB in /home: find /home -size +100M & \# Connect to host as your local username: ssh host \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \# Connect to host as user: ssh user@host & \# Connect to host using port: ssh -p port user@host \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} grep 'word' filename – Search any line that contains the word in filename on Linux & grep -i 'bar' file1 – A case-insensitive search for the word 'bar' in Linux and Unix \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} grep -R 'foo' . – Search all files in the current directory and in all of its subdirectories in Linux for the word 'foo' & grep -c 'nixcraft' frontpage.md – Search and display the total number of times that the string 'nixcraft' appears in a file named frontpage.md \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 8) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File and Directory Commands}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# List all files in a long listing (detailed) format & \# Display the present working directory \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} ls -al & pwd \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Create a directory & \# Remove (delete) file \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} mkdri directory & rm file \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Remove the directory and its contents recursively & \# Force removal of file without prompting for confirmation \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} rm -r directory & rm -f file \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Forcefully remove directory recursively & \#Copy file1 to file2 \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} rm -rf directory & cp file1 file2 \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Copy source\_directory recursively to destination. If destination exists, copy source\_directory into destination, otherwise create destination with the contents of source\_directory. & \# Rename or move file1 to file2. If file2 is an existing directory, move file1 into directory file2 \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 10) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} cp -r source\_directory destination & mv file1 file2 \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \# Create symbolic link to linkname & \# Create an empty file or update the access and modification times of file. \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 4) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File and Directory Commands (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ln -s /path/to/file linkname & touch file \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} \# Display the first/last 10 lines of file & \#View/browse the contents of file \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} head line/tail line & cat file/less file \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} \# Display the last 10 lines of file and "follow" the file as it grows. & tail -f file \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.78712 cm} x{2.18988 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{File Attributes}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} user group/other permissions - link account - user - group - filesize - date - filename & r : read, w : write, x - excute \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor 2}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} / to find & \textbackslash{}\textgreater{} : searches for the next word that ends with a specific string \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {[}{]} : finds the characters between brackets & /\textless{} : searches for the next word that begins with a specific string \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \$: searches for the line that ends with a specific character & :! - leave vi tempo \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} :q - cancel an editing session & :wq - write changes to disk and exit vi \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ZZ: in command mode, save changes and exit vi & u : undo most recent change \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor 2}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} / to find & \textbackslash{}\textgreater{} : searches for the next word that ends with a specific string \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {[}{]} : finds the characters between brackets & /\textless{} : searches for the next word that begins with a specific string \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Vi Editor 2}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} / to find & \textbackslash{}\textgreater{} : searches for the next word that ends with a specific string \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {[}{]} : finds the characters between brackets & /\textless{} : searches for the next word that begins with a specific string \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}