Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
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Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
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Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#2Thank goodness for Linux. Where would UNIX and BSD be without the most important Linux commands? I kid. No Linux commands listed, only shell commands. I'd like to initiate a cutesy repeatable Ghostbuster's themed meme: There is no Linux. There is only shell. Maybe if it is popular enough, the zealots will stop insisting GNU/Linux is the center of the cosmos, but I doubt it.
Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#3Thank goodness for Linux. Where would UNIX and BSD be without the most important Linux commands? I kid. No Linux commands listed, only shell commands. I'd like to initiate a cutesy repeatable Ghostbuster's themed meme: There is no Linux. There is only shell. Maybe if it is popular enough, the zealots will stop insisting GNU/Linux is the center of the cosmos, but I doubt it.
Everything you said is true but for absolute noobs who want to get started with Linux, this is useful
Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#4The content is useful, and familiar to any experienced Unix/Linux user,
but formatting that content as a table with many heavily folded lines
nearly ruins the content for any really new user.
Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#5As a start to using shell I recommend learning (roughly in order):
man
grep
sed
find
piping and redirect
xargs
looping
Knowing the basics of those unlocks a lot of the power of the shell. You can you them to brute force your way through most problems as you learn more.
Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#6I would tweak the redirect info to have “xxx &> file” in there since that’s one that is often confusing to people early on that want to output stdout and stderr to a file and are confused about how to do that. But yea the list of stuff here is a nice starter list for sure.
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#7OMG thank you for putting this together, OP.
I work with clients for whom this knowledge will be greatly useful. CTRL-R is a revelation, every time.
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#8I would tweak the redirect info to have “xxx &> file” in there since that’s one that is often confusing to people early on that want to output stdout and stderr to a file and are confused about how to do that. But yea the list of stuff here is a nice starter list for sure.
Thanks, good idea. I will add that one.
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#9I know that people like to use ctrl-R to search backwards through history, but I am very zealous about using the up-arrow to search through your history instead (in your .bashrc):
bindkey "^[[a" history-beginning-search-backward
bindkey "^[[B" history-beginning-search-forward
Re: Most Important Linux Commands Cheatsheet
#10Pedantic note about ctrl+d: it doesn’t mean logout. It sends and EOF character.
Said EOF is honoured by your TTY, which closes the FD this ending the session.
You can see this by typing `cat -` and ending it with ctrl+d. The windows equivalent is ctrl+z.