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ethtool - networking
allows you to query and change your NIC settings.
miitool - networking
view, manipulate,
media independent interface
fdisk - networking
manipulates disk partition table
mountsmb - networking
used to mount smb drives
su - networking
switch user ID during a login session
dig -networking
Domain Information Groper Prints DNS information txt mx records
ping - networking
Send ICMP packets
ifconfig - networking
Interface configuration - used to configure and print interface information
telnet - networking
used to communicate with another host using the telnet protocol
tcpdump - networking
Transmission control protocol dump - used to capture packets and save to files
traceroute - networking
displays route and transfer delays of packets across an IP network to a given host
netstat - networking
network statistics - shows current connections and shows open ports being used
arp - networking
address resolution protocol - resolves an IP address of a system to a MAC address.
route - networking
prints and configures IP routing table
curl - networking
client URL - used to transfer data to and from servers
iptables - networking
configures the kernel firewall chains and rules to manage inbound/outbound mail
nmap -networking
network map - network application tool and security/port scanner
df - performance
disk free - displays available disk space
du - performance
disk usage - file space usage
top - performance
displays processes q
ps - performance
process status - provides info on currently running processes
kill -performance
kill - terminate a process
killall - performance
killall - kills all processes by name
vmstat - performance
virtual memory statistics - IO/CPU/MEM monitoring utility
strace - performance
strace - trace system calls and signals
cp - files, folders, scripts
copy files and directories
scp - files, folders, scripts
secure copy - copy over ssh
mvless - files, folders, scripts
move files from one place to another
less - files, folders, scripts
used to read contents of a file one page at a time
cat - files, folders, scripts
concatenate - reads data from files and outputs their content
chmod - files, folders, scripts
change mode - change access mode of a file (permissions)
chown - files, folders, scripts
change owner - change the owner of a file or directory
file - files, folders, scripts
determines file type
find - files, folders, scripts
searches in real-time, slower but more up to date
ls - files, folders, scripts
list files/directories within a current working directory
ll - files, folders, scripts
long list
lsof - files, folders, scripts
list open files
locate - files, folders, scripts
searches using previously generated database. much faster that “locate” but uses an older database.
mkdir - files, folders, scripts
make directory - creates directories
tail - files, folders, scripts
prints last lines of a file
tar - files, folders, scripts
creates a compressed file called a tarball
head - folders, files, scripts
prints first lines of a file
gzip - files, folders, scripts
compresses files
gunzip - files, folders, scripts
expands compressed gzip files
diff - files, folders, scripts
used in comparing the differences in files line by line
rm - files, folders, scripts
remove files and directories
emacs - files, folders, scripts
family of text editors
vi - files, folders, scripts
visual instrument - text editor for programs and scripts
zcat - files, folders, scripts
compress or expand files
touch - files, folders, scripts
creates a file
wc - files, folders, scripts
word count
which - files, folders, scripts
identify the location of executables and shows full path of the shell commands
md5sum - files, folders, scripts
calculates and verifies 128 bit MD5 hashes
stdin - files, folders, scripts
standard input - carries data from a user to a program
stdout - files, folders, scripts
standard output - writes data that was generated by a program
stderr - files, programs, scripts
standard error - errors generated by a program that failed at some point