bash-cheat-sheet.md

Bash Cheat Sheet

curl

• Pass in username/password: -u username:password, to use github tokens, curl -u 2346b76ab68d28071961d15e96e89d09614bec97:x-oauth-basic
• Passing in HTTP headers: -h "A: B", such as -h "Autorization: bearer ABC
• Post a message in the body of curl: --data "contents" or -d "contents"
• curl will by default assume it's dealing with a GET, unless a -d is passed in, then being considered a POST. To explicitly state which request method you want, you can pass in -X PUT, -X HEAD, etc.
• Follow redirects: -L
• Avoid reporting download information: -s
• Extra information: -v, -i
• curl --limit-rate 50b 127.0.0.1:8080/random to limit the rate to 50b/s

netstat

• sudo netstat -tupln shows you which ports are currently being used and by which application

Encoding / Decoding

• Encode a file in base-64: base64 <file>
• Decode a string: base64 -d