Cheat sheets

With many commands available on Linux, the number of options and remembering them can be overwhelming. This collection of Linux cheat sheets is intended as a reference for common tools and how to use them. With the included examples, it is also an easy way to learn about the options that they have to offer.

awk

Parse files quicker with smarter expressions

curl

Download files and troubleshoot issues faster with curl

dmidecode

All hardware exposed

du

Find out who is using up that disk space

find

Learn to search and to find

ip

No more networking secrets

journalctl

Query the journal and find the needle

lsof

Show open file information

ss

Reveal all those sockets

strace

Troubleshoot and monitor all processes

systemctl

Control those processes and timers

systemd

Make a new friend?

tar

Archiving all the data

tcpdump

No network packet will remain hidden