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

๐Ÿ“ File & Directory Management

ls, cd, pwd, mkdir, rmdir, touch, cp, mv, rm, tree, find, locate, updatedb, stat, file

๐Ÿ’ฝ Disk & Filesystem Management

df, du, mount, umount, blkid, lsblk, fdisk, parted, mkfs, fsck

๐Ÿ“Š 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

๐Ÿ” Permissions & Ownership

chmod, chown, chgrp, umask, getfacl, setfacl, ln, lsattr, chattr

๐Ÿ“ฆ Archiving & Compression

tar, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, xz, unxz, zip, unzip, dd

๐Ÿ“ Text Editors & Viewing

nano, vim, cat, less, more, head, tail

๐Ÿ”ค Text Processing

cut, wc, sort, uniq, grep, egrep, awk, sed, tr, xargs, tee

๐Ÿ“… Job Scheduling & System Services

cron, crontab, at, systemctl, journalctl, timedatectl, hostnamectl

๐ŸŒ Networking

ip, ss, ping, traceroute, dig, nslookup, host, nmcli, curl, wget, ssh, scp, sftp

๐Ÿ‘ฅ User & Group Management

useradd, usermod, userdel, groupadd, groupmod, passwd, chage, su, sudo, visudo

๐Ÿ”ฅ Security & Firewalls

iptables, ufw, firewall-cmd

๐Ÿ“ฆ Package Management

rpm, dnf, yum, dpkg, apt, snap, flatpak

๐Ÿงฉ Kernel Modules & Sysctl

modprobe, lsmod, insmod, rmmod, sysctl

echo, read, source, export, env, alias, history, bash, sh
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