Linux Cheatsheet: Userful CLI tools and commands.md

Git

• See git cheatsheet.

Copy/Sync Files and Directories

• rsync -a --delete --compress --omit-dir-times --omit-link-times --no-g --no-perms [user@server:]source [user@server:]target
• scp -Crqp [user@server:]source [user@server:]target

Terminal

• ssh username@server
• tmux (Ctrl+b ":set -g status off" to disable status bar with clock)
• screen

Compression

• zip
• unzip
• tar

System resources

• top
• htop
• df
• du

Directories and Files

• ls
• cd
• cd ~
• pushd
• popd
• shopt -s dotglob
• mkdir
• rmdir
• rm -rf
• mv
• (shopt -s dotglob; mv ~/source/* ~/target)

Finding stuff

• find . -iname *.md
• command | grep "text-to-find"
• grep "text-to-find" filename
• grep -Ril "text-to-find-here" directoryPath

Editing files

• sed
• nano
• vi
• touch

File and folder access/permissions

• sudo
• sudo -u username command
• chomod
• chown

Groups

• groups username
• usermod -a -G [www-data/or/apache] username

System identification

• hostname -I
• whoami

Shell Command History

• history

MySQL

• mysql -u username -p databaseName
• mysql -u username -p databaseName < exportdb.sql
• mysqldump -u username -p databaseName > exportdb.sql