Linux Cheat

Linux tutorials and cheatsheets. Minimal examples. User and kernel land.

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
   3. Linux runs on
   4. Runs Linux
6. Kernel
   1. System Call
   2. sysctl
   3. dmesg
   4. installkernel
7. Initialization
   1. Install Operating System
   2. Boot
   3. Init: System V, Upstart
8. System information
   1. lsb_release
   2. uname
   3. Hardware
      1. cpuid
      2. lspci
      3. lsusb
9. Filesystem
   1. File permissions
   2. Hardlink
   3. badblocks
   4. bindfs
   5. blkid
   6. fdisk
   7. FUSE
   8. fuser
   9. lsblk
   10. fstab
   11. mountall
   12. pathchk
   13. rsync
   14. sync
   15. swap partition
   16. tune2fs
   17. UUID
   18. ext filesystems
       1. e2label
       2. e2fsck
       3. e2fsprogs
       4. mke2fs
   19. Virtual filesystems
       1. proc filesystem
       2. dev filesystem
          1. mknod
          2. /dev/loop
          3. /dev/sr0
       3. sysfs
       4. ramfs
       5. binfmt_misc filesystem
   20. 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
   21. Permissions
       1. chown
       2. chmod
   22. File managers
       1. Krusader
       2. CLI file managers
          1. vifm
   23. Partitions
       1. parted
       2. gparted
       3. Home partition
       4. MBR
       5. GPT
   24. 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. Eclipse
    6. expand
    7. fold
    8. paste
    9. printf
    10. sed
    11. strings
    12. tabs
    13. uniq
    14. wc
14. Binary data viewers
    1. hd
    2. hexdump
    3. od
15. Diff
    1. comm
    2. cmp
    3. diff
    4. wdiff
16. Programming
    1. ack
    2. Analytics
       1. cloc
       2. sloccount
    3. ctags
    4. cscope
    5. Build systems
       1. make
       2. autotools
17. Processes
    1. procps
       1. free
       2. kill
       3. pgrep
       4. pmap
       5. ps
       6. top
    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. timeout
    18. umask
    19. ulimit
    20. wait
18. Date and time
    1. cal
    2. ddate
    3. date
    4. hwclock
    5. Time zone
19. 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. Game: games, emulation
    5. Image
       1. Formats
          1. NetPBM
       2. GIMP
       3. ImageMagick
       4. gnuplot
    6. Video
       1. Video codecs
       2. Video containers
       3. Utilities
          1. ffmpeg
             1. ffserver.conf
          2. Ripping
             1. HandBrake
       4. Trivia
          1. MPEG LA
    7. Camera
       1. Video4Linux
20. File sharing
    1. Dropbox
    2. Nicotine
21. Compression
    1. 7zip
    2. File Roller
    3. RAR
    4. gzip
    5. tar
    6. zip
    7. ar
22. User accounts
    1. id
    2. usermod
23. Desktop
    1. X11
    2. freedesktop.org
       1. D-Bus
    3. Display manager
       1. LightDM
    4. Window manager
    5. Default applications
       1. 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
    14. xsel
    15. xdg-open
    16. xset
24. Generic data formats
    1. JSON
    2. XML
25. Character encoding
    1. Unicode
       1. iconv
26. Markup
    1. Kramdown
    2. Pandoc
    3. RST
27. Virtualization
    1. Docker
    2. QEMU
    3. Xen
    4. Vagrant
    5. Intel SDE
28. Configuration automation
    1. chef
    2. puppet
29. Communication
    1. Chat
       1. IRC
          1. Xchat
30. Printer
    1. CUPS
       1. lp
       2. lpstat
       3. lpoptions
       4. system-config-printer
    2. ink
    3. Scan
       1. Simple scan
       2. HP
31. Mathematics
    1. bc
    2. factor
    3. primes
    4. seq
    5. shuf
    6. Sorting
       1. sort
       2. tsort
    7. Graphviz
       1. acyclic
       2. dijkstra
       3. gc
32. Packages
    1. util-linux
33. Simulation
    1. gazebo
34. Misc
    1. BusyBox
    2. cron
       1. anacron
    3. logrotate
    4. xargs
35. Statistics
36. Bibliography

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