Linux Cheat

Linux tutorials and cheatsheets. Minimal examples. Mostly user-land CLI utilities.

Includes Linux concepts and utilities that work on Linux, not necessarily in the LSB. So this is a big dump of useful things, and when something gets big / useful enough, I split to another repository.

1. Related repositories
   1. Ubuntu Cheat
   2. C++ Cheat
   3. Networking Cheat
   4. Gnuplot Cheat
2. utils dump of many utilities. Being split up into separate files.
3. Documentation viewers
   1. man
   2. info
4. Base standards
   1. POSIX
      1. POSIX regular expressions
   2. LSB
   3. FHS
   4. GNU
5. Linux
   1. Alternatives
      1. Hurd
      2. BSD
      3. Android
   2. Distros
      1. Minimal distros
      2. Buildroot
   3. Linux runs on
   4. Runs Linux
6. Kernel
   1. System Call
   2. sysctl
   3. dmesg
   4. installkernel
   5. TTY
7. Initialization
   1. Install Operating System
   2. Boot
   3. Init: System V, Upstart
8. System information
   1. lsb_release
   2. uname
   3. Hardware
      1. lshw
      2. cpuid
      3. lspci
      4. lsusb
9. Filesystem
   1. File permissions
   2. Hardlink
   3. badblocks
   4. bindfs
   5. blkid
   6. fdisk
   7. FUSE
   8. Forensic rm
   9. fuser
   10. lsblk
   11. fstab
   12. mountall
   13. pathchk
   14. rsync
   15. rm
   16. sync
   17. swap partition
   18. tune2fs
   19. UUID
   20. ext filesystems
       1. e2label
       2. e2fsck
       3. e2fsprogs
       4. mke2fs
   21. Virtual filesystems
       1. proc filesystem
       2. dev filesystem
          1. mknod
          2. /dev/loop
          3. /dev/sr0
       3. sysfs
       4. ramfs
       5. binfmt_misc filesystem
       6. NFS
   22. Files, directories
       1. cp
       2. dd
       3. du
       4. fallocate
       5. fdupes
       6. find
       7. Links
          1. ln
          2. readlink
          3. realpath
       8. locate
       9. ls
       10. mktemp
       11. read
       12. stat
       13. tree
   23. Permissions
       1. chown
       2. chmod
   24. File managers
       1. Krusader
       2. CLI file managers
          1. vifm
   25. Partitions
       1. parted
       2. gparted
       3. Home partition
       4. MBR
       5. GPT
   26. CD DVD
       1. isoinfo
       2. eject
10. Terminal: terminal emulators, ANSI escapes, control characters
    1. Guake
11. Stream and file manipulation
    1. cat
    2. head
    3. rev
    4. pr
    5. tac
    6. tail
    7. truncate
12. Pagers
    1. less
    2. more
    3. pg
13. Text processing
    1. awk
    2. echo
    3. column
    4. cut
    5. expand
    6. fold
    7. paste
    8. printf
    9. sed
    10. split
    11. strings
    12. tabs
    13. uniq
    14. uuencode, uudecode
    15. wc
14. IDEs
    1. Eclipse
    2. Code::Blocks
    3. KDevelop
15. Binary data viewers
    1. hd
    2. hexdump
    3. od
16. Diff
    1. comm
    2. cmp
    3. diff
    4. wdiff
17. Programming
    1. ack
    2. Analytics
       1. cloc
       2. sloccount
    3. ctags
    4. cscope
    5. Build systems
       1. make
       2. autotools
18. Processes
    1. procps
       1. free
       2. kill
       3. pgrep
       4. pmap
       5. ps
       6. top
       7. watch
    2. psmisc
       1. killall
    3. Shebang
    4. chroot
    5. env
    6. htop
    7. jobs
    8. lsof
    9. ltrace
    10. nice
    11. nohup
    12. parallel
    13. pstree
    14. pwd
    15. sleep
    16. strace
    17. time
    18. timeout
    19. umask
    20. ulimit
    21. wait
19. Date and time
    1. cal
    2. ddate
    3. date
    4. hwclock
    5. Time zone
20. Media video, games, etc.) file types, viewers, editors, capture, synthesizers
    1. Audio: music, sound
       1. avconv
    2. Book: PDF, DJVU.
    3. Dictionary: dictionary formats
    4. Font
    5. Game: games, emulation
       1. Game engines
    6. Image
       1. Formats
          1. NetPBM
       2. GIMP
       3. ImageMagick
       4. gnuplot
    7. Video
       1. Video codecs
       2. Video containers
       3. Utilities
          1. ffmpeg
             1. ffserver.conf
          2. Ripping
             1. HandBrake
       4. Trivia
          1. MPEG LA
       5. VLC
    8. Camera
       1. Video4Linux
21. File sharing
    1. Dropbox
    2. Nicotine
22. Compression
    1. 7zip
    2. File Roller
    3. RAR
    4. gzip
    5. tar
    6. zip
    7. ar
23. User accounts
    1. id
    2. usermod
24. Desktop
    1. Configuration methods
       1. dconf
       2. gconf
       3. Desktop files
    2. X11
       1. wmctrl
       2. xprop
       3. xsel
       4. xset
       5. Display manager
    3. freedesktop.org
       1. D-Bus
       2. LightDM
    4. Window manager
    5. Default applications
       1. xdg-open
       2. update-alternatives
    6. Startup programs
    7. Notifications
       1. libnotify
       2. zenity
    8. Screenshots
       1. recordMyDesktop
       2. xwd
    9. Screensaver
    10. IBus
    11. logkeys
    12. setleds
    13. solaar
25. Generic data formats
    1. JSON
    2. XML
26. Character encoding
    1. Unicode
       1. iconv
27. Markup
    1. Kramdown
    2. Pandoc
    3. RST
28. Virtualization
    1. Docker
    2. QEMU
    3. Xen
    4. Vagrant
    5. Intel SDE
    6. gem5
29. Configuration automation
    1. chef
    2. puppet
30. Communication
    1. Chat
       1. IRC
          1. Xchat
31. Printer
    1. CUPS
       1. lp
       2. lpstat
       3. lpoptions
       4. system-config-printer
    2. ink
    3. Scan
       1. Simple scan
       2. HP
32. Mathematics
    1. bc
    2. coq
    3. factor
    4. primes
    5. seq
    6. shuf
    7. Sorting
       1. sort
       2. tsort
    8. Graphviz
       1. acyclic
       2. dijkstra
       3. gc
    9. Statistics
33. Packages
    1. util-linux
34. Physics
    1. gazebo
35. Misc
    1. BusyBox
    2. cron
       1. anacron
    3. logrotate
    4. xargs
36. Bibliography

WIP

1. Filesystem
   1. devpts
   2. eCryptfs
   3. rootfs
   4. MAKEDEV
2. gcov
3. File sharing
   1. LDAP