Mastering Linux One Command at a Time: My Linux+ Study Cheatsheet

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๐ File & Directory Management
ls, cd, pwd, mkdir, rmdir, touch, cp, mv, rm, tree, find, locate, updatedb, stat, file
๐ฝ Disk & Filesystem Management
df, du, mount, umount, blkid, lsblk, fdisk, parted, mkfs, fsck
๐ System Monitoring & Performance
free, top, htop, ps, kill, killall, nice, renice, jobs, bg, fg, &, watch,
uptime, lscpu, lsmem, uname, hostname, whoami, who, w, id, groups
๐ Permissions & Ownership
chmod, chown, chgrp, umask, getfacl, setfacl, ln, lsattr, chattr
๐ฆ Archiving & Compression
tar, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, xz, unxz, zip, unzip, dd
๐ Text Editors & Viewing
nano, vim, cat, less, more, head, tail
๐ค Text Processing
cut, wc, sort, uniq, grep, egrep, awk, sed, tr, xargs, tee
๐ Job Scheduling & System Services
cron, crontab, at, systemctl, journalctl, timedatectl, hostnamectl
๐ Networking
ip, ss, ping, traceroute, dig, nslookup, host, nmcli, curl, wget, ssh, scp, sftp
๐ฅ User & Group Management
useradd, usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupmod, passwd, chage, su, sudo, visudo
๐ฅ Security & Firewalls
iptables, ufw, firewall-cmd
๐ฆ Package Management
rpm, dnf, yum, dpkg, apt, snap, flatpak
๐งฉ Kernel Modules & Sysctl
modprobe, lsmod, insmod, rmmod, sysctl
echo, read, source, export, env, alias, history, bash, sh
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