Common Commands

A collection of common commands on Linux / Bash systems

Toggle Function Key

https://askubuntu.com/questions/23643/how-do-i-disable-the-fn-keys-on-a-laptop

Press Fn+Esc will toggle between enabling/disabling Fn-key functions.

You can also press Ctrl+Shift+T.

Bash

Execute script

Use chmod 700 scriptname first.

./scriptname

Check permissions on files in current directory

ls -lh

Go to last directory

$ cd -

Get disk usage (space)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/400807/is-there-an-easy-command-line-command-to-check-disk-space

$ df -h

Reboot machine

 $ sudo reboot

Change owner of file

$ chown

Change file permissions

chmod

Copy

C-S-c

Paste

C-S-v

Navigating directories faster

https://mhoffman.github.io/2015/05/21/how-to-navigate-directories-with-the-shell.html

New tab (keyboard shortcut)

C-S-t

Search through history

C-r / C-s

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Searching.html

Remove Directories

Force removal recusively

$ sudo rm -rf somefolder

SCP - transfer file to remove server

Copy automation file using scp:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/232946/how-to-copy-all-files-from-a-directory-to-a-remote-directory-using-scp
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11388014/using-scp-to-copy-a-file-to-amazon-ec2-instance

$ scp -i "~/.ssh/app-software-application-server-key-pair.pem" -r ~/src/app-software-automation ubuntu@ec2-3-8-74-189.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:~/.

Get man (manual) pages

$ man <command>

Concatenate files and print on the standard output

$ cat file1, file2 

Find in file names

(Searching for files starting with BIOS)

find -name "BIOS*"

Grep find with file name and line numbers

(Searching for word BIOS in text files)

$ grep -H -n --with-filename "BIOS" *.txt

Exit SSH / docker exec etc.

$ exit

Vi

Move to "command mode" - I have no idea if that's what it's called. Where can call :wq etc

Esc

Insert

Insert

Replace

Insert

Write and quit:

:wq

To open a file:

vi \<file match text \>

Cygwin

Accessing files on Windows C:/

$cd /cygdrive/c

Get path to Cygwin folder on Windows

$cygpath -w ~

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18909767/cygwin-cant-find-my-files

List running daemons

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/175380/how-to-list-all-running-daemons

Various ways of doing this

Cheat sheet:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/bzhtw2/basic_linux_commands/

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