Linux Commands miscellaneous

•	alias hd='od -Ax -tx1z -v'	Handy hexdump. (usage e.g.: • hd /proc/self/cmdline | less)
•	alias realpath='readlink -f'	Canonicalize path. (usage e.g.: • realpath ~/../$USER)
•	set | grep $USER	Search current envirenement
	touch -c -t 0304050607 file	Set file timestamp (YYMMDDhhmm)
•	python -m SimpleHTTPServer	Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

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Linux Commands interactive

• readline Line editor used by bash, python, bc, gnuplot, ...
• screen Virtual terminals with detach capability, ...
• mc Powerful file manager that can browse rpm, tar, ftp, ssh, ...
• gnuplot Interactive/scriptable graphing
• links Web browser
• xdg-open http://www.website.xxx/ open a file or url with the registered desktop application

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Linux Commands system information

•	uname -a	Show kernel version and system architecture
•	head -n1 /etc/issue	Show name and version of distribution
•	cat /proc/partitions	Show all partitions registered on the system
•	grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo	Show RAM total seen by the system
•	grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo	Show CPU(s) info
•	lspci -tv	Show PCI info
•	lsusb -tv	Show USB info
•	mount | column -t	List mounted filesystems on the system (and align output)
•	grep -F capacity: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info	Show state of cells in laptop battery
#	dmidecode -q | less	Display SMBIOS/DMI information
#	smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep Power_On_Hours	How long has this disk (system) been powered on in total
#	hdparm -i /dev/sda	Show info about disk sda
#	hdparm -tT /dev/sda	Do a read speed test on disk sda
#	badblocks -s /dev/sda	Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda

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Linux Commands monitoring/debugging

•	tail -f /var/log/messages	Monitor Messages in a log file
•	strace -c ls >/dev/null	Summarise/profile system calls made by command
•	strace -f -e open ls >/dev/null	List system calls made by command
•	ltrace -f -e getenv ls >/dev/null	List library calls made by command
•	lsof -p $$	List paths that process id has open
•	lsof ~	List processes that have specified path open
•	tcpdump not port 22	Show network traffic except ssh.
•	ps -e -o pid,args --forest	List processes in a hierarchy
•	ps -e -o pcpu,cpu,nice,state,cputime,args --sort pcpu | sed '/^ 0.0 /d'	List processes by % cpu usage
•	ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW$COLUMNS	List processes by mem usage.
•	ps -C firefox-bin -L -o pid,tid,pcpu,state	List all threads for a particular process
•	ps -p 1,2	List info for particular process IDs
•	last reboot	Show system reboot history
•	free -m	Show amount of (remaining) RAM (-m displays in MB)
•	watch -n.1 'cat /proc/interrupts'	Watch changeable data continuously

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Linux Commands disk space

•	ls -lSr	Show files by size, biggest last
•	du -s * | sort -k1,1rn | head	Show top disk users in current dir.
•	df -h	Show free space on mounted filesystems
•	df -i	Show free inodes on mounted filesystems
•	fdisk -l	Show disks partitions sizes and types (run as root)
•	rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n	List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros
•	dpkg -query -W -f='${Installed-Size;10}\t${Package}\n' | sort -k1,1n	List all packages by installed size (KBytes) on deb distros
•	dd bs=1 seek=2TB if=/dev/null of=ext3.test	Create a large test file (taking no space).
•	> file	truncate data of file or create an empty file

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Linux Commands CDs

	gzip < /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso.gz	Save copy of data cdrom
	mkisofs -V LABEL -r dir | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz	Create cdrom image from contents of dir
	mount -o loop cdrom.iso /mnt/dir	Mount the cdrom image at /mnt/dir (read only)
	cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom blank=fast	Clear a CDRW
	gzip -dc cdrom.iso.gz | cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -	Burn cdrom image (use dev=ATAPI -scanbus to confirm dev)
	cdparanoia -B	Rip audio tracks from CD to wav files in current dir
	cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -audio *.wav	Make audio CD from all wavs in current dir (see also cdrdao)
	oggenc --tracknum='track' track.cdda.wav -o 'track.ogg'	Make ogg file from wav file

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Linux Commands recode (Obsoletes iconv, dos2unix, unix2dos)

•	recode -l | less	Show available conversions (aliases on each line)
	recode windows-1252.. file_to_change.txt	Windows "ansi" to local charset (auto does CRLF conversion)
	recode utf-8/CRLF.. file_to_change.txt	Windows utf8 to local charset
	recode iso-8859-15..utf8 file_to_change.txt	Latin9 (western europe) to utf8
	recode ../b64 <> file.b64	Base64 encode
	recode /qp.. <> file.qp	Quoted printable decode
	recode ..HTML <> file.html	Text to HTML
•	recode -lf windows-1252 | grep euro
•	echo -n 0x80 | recode latin-9/x1..dump	Show what a code represents in latin-9 charmap
•	echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..latin-9/x	Show latin-9 encoding
•	echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..utf-8/x	Show utf-8 encoding

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