Generic commands
find -name skype
whereis drush
sh file.sh //(installing .sh files)
cat file.txt //(open file)
touch file.txt //(creates an empty file)
makedir -p abc/def/ghi //(will make all folders)
less etc/file.txt
echo $PATH
man chown
ifconfig
ps -aef || grep -i skype
kill <pid>
rsync -avz abc@xyz.com:test/sites/default/files sites/default/files
scp source_file_name username@destination_host:destination_folder
How can I copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal?
cp -a /source/. /dest/
PERMISSIONS
chown -R nk:nk ./
chmod a+w OR o+w var/html
SSH KEYS
ssh-keygen (for generating new SSH)
cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (for getting machine finger print or ssh key)
Virtual Hosts
sudo emacs /etc/hosts
sudo emacs /etc/httpd/conf.d/arkhitech.conf OR sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
less /var/log/httpd/
Restart Commands
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo apache2ctl restart
sudo restart apache2
sudo service apache2 start
//if nothing working then do sudo su - first and then try
//count the lines in a file
wc -l dev.sql
Search in running processes and the kill some process
ps -aef |grep sear
kill 6775
Console Shortcuts
shift+g => to go to file end
ctrl + r => to do reverse search
Cron Jobs // list all cron jobs for user apache sudo crontab -u apache -l
// see disk usage overall sudo du -cha --max-depth=1 / | grep -E "M|G" sudo df -h (shows in human readable form)
Tools iotop (to check realtime i/o overview) - sudo apt-get install iotop ncdu (to check disk space usage of any directory) - sudo apt install ncdu