| COMMAND
| DESCRIPTION
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| System information
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| arch
| show architecture of machine
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| uname -r
| show used kernel version
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| dmidecode -q
| show hardware system components - (SMBIOS / DMI)
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| hdaparm -i /dev/hda
| displays the characteristics of a hard-disk
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| hdparm -tT /dev/sda
| perform test reading on a hard-disk
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| cat /proc/cpuinfo
| show information CPU info
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| cat /proc/interrupts
| show interrupts
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| cat /proc/meminfo
| verify memory use
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| cat /proc/swaps
| show file(s) swap
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| cat /proc/version
| show version of the kernel
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| cat /proc/net/dev
| show network adpters and statistics
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| cat /proc/mounts
| show mounted file system(s)
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| lspci -tv
| display PCI devices
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| lsusb -tv
| show USB devices
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| date
| show system date
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| cal 2007
| show the timetable of 2007
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| date 041217002007.00
| set date and time - MonthDayhoursMinutesYear.Secondi
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clock -w
| save changes on BIOS
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| Shutdown, Restart of a system and Logout
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| shutdown -h now
| shutdown system
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| init 0
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| shutdown -r hours:minutes &
| planned shutdown of the system
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| shutdown -c
| cancel a planned shutdown of the system
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| shutdown -r now
| reboot
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| reboot
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| logout
| leaving session
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| Files and Directory
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| cd /home
| enter to directory '/ home'
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| cd ..
| go back one level
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| cd ../..
| go back two levels
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| cd
| go to home directory
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| cd ~utente
| go to home directory
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| cd -
| go to previous directory
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| pwd
| show the path of work directory
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| ls
| view files of directory
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| ls -F
| view files of directory
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| ls -l
| show details of files and directory
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| ls -a
| show hidden files
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| ls *[0-9]*
| show files and directory containing numbers
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| lstree
| show files and directories in a tree starting from root
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| mkdir dir1
| create a directory called 'dir1'
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| mkdir dir1 dir2
| create two directories simultaneously
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| mkdir -p /tmp/dir1/dir2
| create a directory tree
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| rm -f file1
| delete file called 'file1'
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| rmdir dir1
| delete directory called 'dir1'
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| rm -rf dir1
| remove a directory called 'dir1' and contents recursively
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| rm -rf dir1 dir2
| remove two directories and their contents recursively
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| mv dir1 new_dir
| rename / move a file or directory
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| cp file1 file2
| copying a file
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| cp dir/* .
| copy all files of a directory within the current work directory
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| cp -a /tmp/dir1 .
| copy a directory within the current work directory
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| cp -a dir1 dir2
| copy a directory
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| ln -s file1 lnk1
| create a symbolic link to file or directory
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| ln file1 lnk1
| create a physical link to file or directory
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| touch -t 0712250000 fileditest
| modify timestamp of a file or directory - (YYMMDDhhmm)
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| File search
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| find / -name file1
| search file and directory into root filesystem from '/'
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| find / -user user1
| search files and directories belonging to 'user1'
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| find /home/user1 -name *.bin
| search files with '. bin' extension within directory '/ home/user1'
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| find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100
| search bynary files are not used in the last 100 days
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| find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10
| search files created or changed within 10 days
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| find / -name *.rpm -exec chmod 755 {} ;
| search files with '.rpm' extension and modify permits
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| find / -name *.rpm -xdev
| search files with '.rpm' extension ignoring removable partitions as cdrom, pen-drive, etc.…
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| locate *.ps
| find files with the '.ps' extension - first run 'updatedb' command
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| whereis halt
| show location of a binary file, source or man
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| which halt
| show full path to a binary / executable
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| Mounting a Filesystem
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| mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
| mount disk called hda2 - verify existence of the directory '/ mnt/hda2'
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| umount /dev/hda2
| unmount disk called hda2 - exit from mount point '/ mnt/hda2' first
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| fuser -km /mnt/hda2
| force umount when the device is busy
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| umount -n /mnt/hda2
| run umount without writing the file /etc/mtab - useful when the file is read-only or the hard disk is full
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| mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
| mount a floppy disk
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| mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
| mount a cdrom / dvdrom
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| mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrecorder
| mount a cdrw / dvdrom
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| mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrecorder
| mount a cdrw / dvdrom
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| mount -o loop file.iso /mnt/cdrom
| mount a file or iso image
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| mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
| mount a Windows FAT32 file system
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| mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
| mount a usb pen-drive or flash-drive
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| mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //winclient/share /mnt/share
| mount a windows network share
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| Disk Space
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| df -h
| show list of partitions mounted
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| ls -lSr |more
| show size of the files and directories ordered by size
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| du -sh dir1
| estimate space used by directory 'dir1'
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| du -sh * | sort -rn
| show size of the files and directories sorted by size
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| rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n
| show space used by rpm packages installed sorted by size (fedora, redhat and like)
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| dpkg-query -W -f='${Installed-Size;10}\t${Package}\n' | sort -k1,1n
| show space used by deb packages installed sorted by size (ubuntu, debian and like)
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| Users and Groups
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| groupadd group_name
| create a new group
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| groupdel group_name
| delete a group
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| groupmod -n new_group_name old_group_name
| rename a group
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| useradd -c "Nome Cognome" -g admin -d /home/user1 -s /bin/bash user1
| create a new user belongs "admin" group
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| useradd user1
| create a new user
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| userdel -r user1
| delete a user ( '-r' eliminates home directory)
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| usermod -c "User FTP" -g system -d /ftp/user1 -s /bin/nologin user1
| change user attributes
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| passwd
| change password
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| passwd user1
| change a user password (only by root)
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| chage -E 2005-12-31 user1
| set deadline for user password
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| pwck
| check correct syntax and file format of '/etc/passwd' and users existence
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| grpck
| check correct syntax and file format of '/etc/group' and groups existence
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| newgrp group_name
| log in to a new group to change default group of newly created files
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| Permits on File - use "+" to set permissions and "-" to remove
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| ls -lh
| show permits
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| ls /tmp | pr -T5 -W$COLUMNS
| divide terminal into 5 columns
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| chmod ugo+rwx directory1
| set permissions reading (r), write (w) and (x) access to users owner (u) group (g) and others (o)
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| chmod go-rwx directory1
| remove permits reading (r), write (w) and (x) access to users group (g) and others (or
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| chown user1 file1
| change owner of a file
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| chown user1 -R directory1
| change user owner of a directory and all the files and directories contained inside
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| chgrp gruppo1 file1
| change group of files
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| chown user1:gruppo1 file1
| change user and group ownership of a file
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| find / -perm -u+s
| view all files on the system with SUID configured
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| chmod u+s /bin/file_eseguibile
| set SUID bit on a binary file - the user that running that file gets same privileges as owner
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| chmod u-s /bin/file_binario
| disable SUID bit on a binary file
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| chmod g+s /home/public
| set SGID bit on a directory - similar to SUID but for directory
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| chmod g-s /home/public
| disable SGID bit on a directory
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| chmod o+t /home/comune
| set STIKY bit on a directory - allows files deletion only to legitimate owners
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| chmod o-t /home/comune
| disable STIKY bit on a directory
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| Special Attributes on file - use "+" to set permissions and "-" to remove
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| chattr +a file1
| allows write opening of a file only append mode
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| chattr +c file1
| allows that a file is compressed / decompressed automatically by the kernel
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| chattr +d file1
| makes sure that the program ignores Dump the files during backup
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| chattr +i file1
| makes it an immutable file, which can not be removed, altered, renamed or linked
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| chattr +s file1
| allows a file to be deleted safely
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| chattr +S file1
| makes sure that if a file is modified changes are written in synchronous mode as with sync
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| chattr +u file1
| allows you to recover the contents of a file even if it is canceled
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| lsattr
| show specials attributes
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| Archives and compressed files
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| bunzip2 file1.bz2
| decompress a file called 'file1.bz2'
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| bzip2 file1
| compress a file called 'file1'
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| gunzip file1.gz
| decompress a file called 'file1.gz'
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| gzip file1
| compress a file called 'file1'
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| gzip -9 file1
| compress with maximum compression
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| rar a file1.rar test_file
| create an archive rar called 'file1.rar'
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| rar a file1.rar file1 file2 dir1
| compress 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1' simultaneously
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| rar x file1.rar
| decompress rar archive
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| unrar x file1.rar
| decompress rar archive
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| tar -cvf archive.tar file1
| create a uncompressed tarball
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| tar -cvf archive.tar file1 file2 dir1
| create an archive containing 'file1', 'file2' and 'dir1'
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| tar -tf archive.tar
| show contents of an archive
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| tar -xvf archive.tar
| extract a tarball
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| tar -xvf archive.tar -C /tmp
| extract a tarball into / tmp
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| tar -cvfj archive.tar.bz2 dir1
| create a tarball compressed into bzip2
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| tar -xvfj archive.tar.bz2
| decompress a compressed tar archive in bzip2
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| tar -cvfz archive.tar.gz dir1
| create a tarball compressed into gzip
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| tar -xvfz archive.tar.gz
| decompress a compressed tar archive in gzip
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| zip file1.zip file1
| create an archive compressed in zip
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| zip -r file1.zip file1 file2 dir1
| compress in zip several files and directories simultaneously
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| unzip file1.zip
| decompress a zip archive
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| RPM Packages - Fedora, Red Hat and like
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| rpm -ivh package.rpm
| install a rpm package
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| rpm -ivh --nodeeps package.rpm
| install a rpm package ignoring dependencies requests
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| rpm -U package.rpm
| upgrade a rpm package without changing configuration files
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| rpm -F package.rpm
| upgrade a rpm package only if it is already installed
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| rpm -e package_name.rpm
| remove a rpm package
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| rpm -qa
| show all rpm packages installed on the system
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| rpm -qa | grep httpd
| show all rpm packages with the name "httpd"
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| rpm -qi package_name
| obtain information on a specific package installed
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| rpm -qg "System Environment/Daemons"
| show rpm packages of a group software
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| rpm -ql package_name
| show list of files provided by a rpm package installed
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| rpm -qc package_name
| show list of configuration files provided by a rpm package installed
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| rpm -q package_name --whatrequires
| show list of dependencies required for a rpm packet
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| rpm -q package_name --whatprovides
| show capability provided by a rpm package
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| rpm -q package_name --scripts
| show scripts started during installation / removal
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| rpm -q package_name --changelog
| show history of revisions of a rpm package
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| rpm -qf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
| verify which rpm package belongs to a given file
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| rpm -qp package.rpm -l
| show list of files provided by a rpm package not yet installed
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| rpm --import /media/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY
| import public-key digital signature
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| rpm --checksig package.rpm
| verify the integrity of a rpm package
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| rpm -qa gpg-pubkey
| verify integrity of all rpm packages installed
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| rpm -V package_name
| check file size, permissions, type, owner, group, MD5 checksum and last modification
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| rpm -Va
| check all rpm packages installed on the system - use with caution
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| rpm -Vp package.rpm
| verify a rpm package not yet installed
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| rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories *bin*
| extract executable file from a rpm package
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| rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/`arch`/package.rpm
| install a package built from a rpm source
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| rpmbuild --rebuild package_name.src.rpm
| build a rpm package from a rpm source
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| YUM packages updater - Fedora, RedHat and like
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| yum install package_name
| download and install a rpm package
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| yum update
| update all rpm packages installed on the system
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| yum update package_name
| upgrade a rpm package
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| yum remove package_name
| remove a rpm package
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| yum list
| list all packages installed on the system
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| yum search package_name
| find a package on rpm repository
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| yum clean packages
| clean up rpm cache erasing downloaded packages
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| yum clean headers
| remove all files headers that the system uses to resolve dependency
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| yum clean all
| remove from the cache packages and headers files
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| DEB packages - Debian, Ubuntu and like
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| dpkg -i package.deb
| install / upgrade a deb package
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| dpkg -r package_name
| remove a deb package from the system
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| dpkg -l
| show all deb packages installed on the system
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| dpkg -l | grep httpd
| show all rpm packages with the name "httpd"
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| dpkg -s package_name
| obtain information on a specific package installed on system
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| dpkg -L package_name
| show list of files provided by a package installed on system
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| dpkg --contents package.deb
| show list of files provided by a package not yet installed
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| dpkg -S /bin/ping
| verify which package belongs to a given file
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| APT packages updater - Debian, Ubuntu e like
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| apt-get install package_name
| install / upgrade a deb package
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| apt-cdrom install package_name
| install / upgrade a deb package from cdrom
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| apt-get update
| update all deb packages installed on system
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| apt-get remove package_name
| remove a deb package from system
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| apt-get check
| verify correct resolution of dependencies
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| apt-get clean
| clean up cache from packages downloaded
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| View file content
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| cat file1
| view the contents of a file starting from the first row
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| tac file1
| view the contents of a file starting from the last line
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| more file1
| view content of a file along
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| less file1
| similar to 'more' command but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement
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| head -2 file1
| view first two lines of a file
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| tail -2 file1
| view last two lines of a file
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| tail -f /var/log/messages
| view in real time what is added to a file
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| Text Manipulation
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| cat file_test | [operation: sed, grep, awk, grep, etc] > result.txt
| syntax to elaborate the text of a file, and write result to a new file
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| cat file_originale | [operazione: sed, grep, awk, grep, etc] >> result.txt
| syntax to elaborate the text of a file and append result in existing file
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| grep Aug /var/log/messages
| look up words "Aug" on file '/var/log/messages'
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| grep ^Aug /var/log/messages
| look up words that begin with "Aug" on file '/var/log/messages'
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| grep [0-9] /var/log/messages
| select from file '/var/log/messages' all lines that contain numbers
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| grep Aug -R /var/log/*
| search string "Aug" at directory '/var/log' and below
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| grep Aug /var/log/messages
| write result of a search within a file
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| sed 's/stringa1/stringa2/g' example.txt
| replace "string1" with "string2" in example.txt
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| sed '/^$/d' example.txt
| remove all blank lines from example.txt
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| sed '/ *#/d; /^ *$/d' example.txt
| remove comments and blank lines from example.txt
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| echo 'esempio' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
| convert from lower case in upper case
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| sed -e '1d' result.txt
| eliminates the first line from file example.txt
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| sed -n '/stringa1/p'
| view only lines that contain the word "string1"
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| sed -e 's/ *$//' example.txt
| remove empty characters at the end of each row
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| sed -e 's/stringa1//g' example.txt
| remove only the word "string1" from text and leave intact all
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| sed -n '1,5p;5q' example.txt
| view from 1th to 5th row
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| sed -n '5p;5q' example.txt
| view row number 5
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| sed -e 's/00*/0/g' example.txt
| replace more zeros with a single zero
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| cat -n file1
| number row of a file
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| cat example.txt | awk 'NR%2==1'
| remove all even lines from example.txt
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| echo a b c | awk '{print $1}'
| view the first column of a line
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| echo a b c | awk '{print $1,$3}'
| view the first and third column of a line
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| paste file1 file2
| merging contents of two files for columns
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| paste -d '+' file1 file2
| merging contents of two files for columns with '+' delimiter on the center
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| sort file1 file2
| sort contents of two files
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| sort file1 file2 | uniq
| sort contents of two files omitting lines repeated
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| sort file1 file2 | uniq -u
| sort contents of two files by viewing only unique line
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| sort file1 file2 | uniq -d
| sort contents of two files by viewing only duplicate line
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| comm -1 file1 file2
| compare contents of two files by deleting only unique lines from 'file1'
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| comm -2 file1 file2
| compare contents of two files by deleting only unique lines from 'file2'
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| comm -3 file1 file2
| compare contents of two files by deleting only the lines that appear on both files
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| Character set and Format file conversion
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| dos2unix filedos.txt fileunix.txt
| convert a text file format from MSDOS to UNIX
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| unix2dos fileunix.txt filedos.txt
| convert a text file format from UNIX to MSDOS
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| recode ..HTML < page.txt > page.html
| convert a text file to html
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| recode -l | more
| show all available formats conversion
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| Filesystem Analysis
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| badblocks -v /dev/hda1
| check bad blocks in disk hda1
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| fsck /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of linux filesystem on disk hda1
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| fsck.ext2 /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of ext2 filesystem on disk hda1
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| e2fsck /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of ext2 filesystem on disk hda1
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| e2fsck -j /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of ext3 filesystem on disk hda1
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| fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of ext3 filesystem on disk hda1
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| fsck.vfat /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of fat filesystem on disk hda1
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| fsck.msdos /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of dos filesystem on disk hda1
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| dosfsck /dev/hda1
| repair / check integrity of dos filesystems on disk hda1
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| Format a Filesystem
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| mkfs /dev/hda1
| create a filesystem type linux on hda1 partition
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| mke2fs /dev/hda1
| create a filesystem type linux ext2 on hda1 partition
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| mke2fs -j /dev/hda1
| create a filesystem type linux ext3 (journal) on hda1 partition
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| mkfs -t vfat 32 -F /dev/hda1
| create a FAT32 filesystem
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| fdformat -n /dev/fd0
| format a floppy disk
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| mkswap /dev/hda3
| create a swap filesystem
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| SWAP filesystem
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| mkswap /dev/hda3
| create a swap filesystem
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| swapon /dev/hda3
| activating a new swap partition
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| swapon /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb3
| activate two swap partitions
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| Backup
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| dump -0aj -f /tmp/home0.bak /home
| make a full backup of directory '/home'
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| dump -1aj -f /tmp/home0.bak /home
| make a incremental backup of directory '/home'
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| restore -if /tmp/home0.bak
| restoring a backup interactively
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| rsync -rogpav --delete /home /tmp
| synchronization between directories
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| rsync -rogpav -e ssh --delete /home ip_address:/tmp
| rsync via SSH tunnel
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| rsync -az -e ssh --delete ip_addr:/home/public /home/local
| synchronize a local directory with a remote directory via ssh and compression
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| rsync -az -e ssh --delete /home/local ip_addr:/home/public
| synchronize a remote directory with a local directory via ssh and compression
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| dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@ip_addr 'dd of=hda.gz'
| make a backup of a local hard disk on remote host via ssh
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| tar -Puf backup.tar /home/user
| make a incremental backup of directory '/home/user'
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| ( cd /tmp/local/ && tar c . ) | ssh -C user@ip_addr 'cd /home/share/ && tar x -p'
| copy content of a directory on remote directory via ssh
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| ( tar c /home ) | ssh -C user@ip_addr 'cd /home/backup-home && tar x -p'
| copy a local directory on remote directory via ssh
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| tar cf - . | (cd /tmp/backup ; tar xf - )
| local copy preserving permits and links from a directory to another
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| find /home/user1 -name '*.txt' | xargs cp -av --target-directory=/home/backup/ --parents
| find and copy all files with '.txt' extention from a directory to another
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| find /var/log -name '*.log' | tar cv --files-from=- | bzip2 > log.tar.bz2
| find all files with '.log' extention and make an bzip archive
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| dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
| make a copy of MBR (Master Boot Record) to floppy
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| dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
| restore MBR from backup copy saved to floppy
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| CDROM
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| cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/cdrom -eject blank=fast -force
| clean a rewritable cdrom
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| mkisofs /dev/cdrom > cd.iso
| create an iso image of cdrom on disk
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| mkisofs /dev/cdrom | gzip > cd_iso.gz
| create a compressed iso image of cdrom on disk
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| mkisofs -J -allow-leading-dots -R -V "Label CD" -iso-level 4 -o ./cd.iso data_cd
| create an iso image of a directory
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| cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom cd.iso
| burn an ISO image
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| gzip -dc cd_iso.gz | cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -
| burn a compressed ISO image
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| mount -o loop cd.iso /mnt/iso
| mount an ISO image
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| cd-paranoia -B
| rip audio tracks from a CD to wav files
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| cd-paranoia -- "-3"
| rip first three audio tracks from a CD to wav files
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| cdrecord --scanbus
| scan bus to identify the channel scsi
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| Networking - LAN and WiFi
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| ifconfig eth0
| show configuration of an ethernet network card
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| ifup eth0
| activate an interface 'eth0'
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| ifdown eth0
| disable an interface 'eth0'
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| ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
| configure IP Address
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| ifconfig eth0 promisc
| configure 'eth0' in promiscuous mode to gather packets (sniffing)
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| dhclient eth0
| active interface 'eth0' in dhcp mode
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| route -n
| show routing table
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| route add -net 0/0 gw IP_Gateway
| configura default gateway
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| route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1
| configure static route to reach network '192.168.0.0/16'
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| route del 0/0 gw IP_gateway
| remove static route
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| echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
| activate ip routing
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| hostname
| show hostname
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| host www.linuxguide.it
| lookup hostname to resolve name to ip address and viceversa
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| ip link show
| show link status of all interfaces
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| mii-tool eth0
| show link status of 'eth0'
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| ethtool eth0
| show statistics of network card 'eth0'
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| netstat -tup
| show all active network connections and their PID
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| netstat -tupl
| show all network services listening on the system and their PID
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| tcpdump tcp port 80
| show all HTTP traffic
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| iwlist scan
| show wireless networks
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| iwconfig eth1
| show configuration of a wireless network card
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| Microsoft Windows networks - SAMBA
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| nbtscan ip_addr
| netbios name resolution
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| nmblookup -A ip_addr
| netbios name resolution
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| smbclient -L ip_addr/hostname
| show remote shares of a windows host
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| smbget -Rr smb://ip_addr/share
| like wget can download files from a host windows via smb
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| mount -t smbfs -o username=user,password=pass //winclient/share /mnt/share
| mount a windows network share
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| IPTABLES - firewall
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| iptables -t filter -L
| show all chains of filtering table
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| iptables -t nat -L
| show all chains of nat table
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| iptables -t filter -F
| clear all rules from filtering table
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| iptables -t nat -F
| clear all rules from table nat
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| iptables -t filter -X
| delete any chains created by user
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| iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp --dport telnet -j ACCEPT
| allow telnet connections to input
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| iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport http -j DROP
| block HTTP connections to output
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| iptables -t filter -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport pop3 -j ACCEPT
| allow POP3 connections to forward chain
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| iptables -t filter -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "DROP INPUT"
| logging sulla chain di input Logging on chain input
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| iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
| configure a PAT (Port Address Traslation) on eth0 masking outbound packets
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| iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.0.1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.2:22
| redirect packets addressed to a host to another host
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| Monitoring and debugging
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| top
| display linux tasks using most cpu
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| ps -eafw
| displays linux tasks
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| ps -e -o pid,args --forest
| displays linux tasks in a hierarchical mode
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| pstree
| mostra un albero dei processi sistema Shows a tree system processes
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| kill -9 ID_Processo
| force closure of the process and finish it
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| kill -1 ID_Processo
| force a process to reload configuration
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| lsof -p $$
| display a list of files opened by processes
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| lsof /home/user1
| displays a list of open files in a given path system
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| strace -c ls >/dev/null
| display system calls made and received by a process
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| strace -f -e open ls >/dev/null
| display library calls
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| watch -n1 'cat /proc/interrupts'
| display interrupts in real-time
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| last reboot
| show history reboot
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| lsmod
| display kernel loaded
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| free -m
| displays status of RAM in megabytes
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| smartctl -A /dev/hda
| monitoring reliability of a hard-disk through SMART
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| smartctl -i /dev/hda
| check if SMART is active on a hard-disk
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| tail /var/log/dmesg
| show events inherent to the process of booting kernel
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| tail /var/log/messages
| show system events
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| Other useful commands
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| mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 `uname -r`
| create a boot floppy
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| gpg -c file1
| encrypt a file with GNU Privacy Guard
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| gpg file1.gpg
| decrypt a file with GNU Privacy Guard
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| wget -r www.example.com
| download an entire web site
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| wget -c www.example.com/file.iso
| download a file with the ability to stop the download and resume later
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| echo 'wget -c www.example.com/files.iso' | at 09:00
| start a download at any given time
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| ldd ssh
| show shared libraries required by ssh program
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| alias hh='history'
| set an alias for a command - hh = history |