All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets
by Mark Sanborn
All the best Linux cheat sheets rounded up in one post broken down into Linux command line, Linux security, Linux administration, Gnome/KDE, sed/awk/vim, and distribution specific cheat sheets..
1. Linux Command Line
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Linux Reference Card - Great reference published on FOSSwire website
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One page Linux Manual - Great one page reference to the most popular Linux commands
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Unix Tool Box - An incredibly exhaustive reference for all things Linux.
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Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet - A great reference with Dos comparisons
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Terminal Shortcuts - Cheat sheet for the most common terminal shortcuts
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More Terminal Shortcuts - More shortcuts for history and X
2. Linux Security
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Linux Security Quick Reference Guide - An awesome security checklist reference
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IP Tables - If you are interested in Linux firewalls this is a must have
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TCPDump - Great cheat sheet to an awesome security tool
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Wireshark Filters - An awesome list of filters for the best packet sniffing utility
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IP Access Lists - Cheat sheet for IP Access Lists
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Common Ports - In case you don’t have all common ports memorized
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netcat - Reference to the swiss army knife of networking
3. Linux Administration
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Linux Admin Quick Reference - PDF cheat sheet of common Linux administration tasks
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Crontab Reference - Also see
Learning Cron by Example 4. Gnome/KDE
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Useful Gnome/KDE shortcuts
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KDE Cheat Sheet - KDE specific cheat sheet
5. sed/awk/vim and other tools
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Vi Cheat Sheet - Who doesn’t love Vi/Vim. Also check out my
guest post on Vim.
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awk nawk and gawk cheat sheet - Awesome awk sheet, also check out
awk is a beautiful tool
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Sed Stream Editor Cheat Sheet -
Savvy Sed
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Screen Quick Reference - Quick reference to a must have screen emulator
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Screen Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet - PDF cheat sheet for screen
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Vi/Vim Cheat Sheet - Nice vim/vi keyboard layout reference
6. Distro Specific
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Ubuntu Cheat Sheet - Ubuntu specific cheat sheet
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Debian Cheat Sheet - Debian specific cheat sheet
7. Everything Else
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Online Man Pages - The ultimate cheat sheet repository. Also use the ‘
man‘ command.
8. My suggestions
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Tuxtraining
* to use verbose mode for commands, usually a "-v" option. For instance:
Code:
cp -v file.a file.b
*file.a -> file.b*
* Linux Cheat Shirt from
XKCD
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A good tutorial for the basics of working with BASH in Linux
* Try this in ur terminal
Code:
python -c 'import webbrowser; webbrowser.open("http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commands.htm")'