Just some simple tips to help with navigating Linux

LinuxTips.md

Windows to Linux

• Easily SSH using PUTTY by creating a shortcut passing in username and server
  • "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe" -ssh user@<hostname>
• Copy files from Windows to Linux and Linux to Windows
  • pscp -scp "C:\local\path\to\file" user@<hostname>:/remote/path/to/file
  • pscp -scp user@<hostname>:/remote/path/to/file "C:\local\path\to\file"

Linux Commands

• Moving around the command line
  • Use the last argument from a previous command
    • <Esc> + .
  • Repeat the last command !!
  • Delete the last word in current command
    • <Esc> + delete/backspace
• Finding things
  • Find a file under a specific path
    • find /path/ -type f -name 'file.ext'
  • List subdirectories of a path
    • find /path/ -type d -print
  • Find files and remove "permission denied" errors
    • find / -name <term> 2>&-
      • redirects results that errored
  • Find all of the distinct file extensions in a folder hierarchy
    • find . -type f | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/\.([^.\/]+)$/' | sort -u
  • Find a string in files
    • grep -rnw '/path/to/files/' -e 'string_to_match'
• Getting server info
  • Memory
    • free -m
    • top
  • Disk space
    • df -h
  • OS
    • cat /etc/os-release