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Linux command line commands

Linux command line commands cheat-sheet

GIT

See current branch

git show-branch

See all branches

git show-branch -a

Create and switch to branch X

git checkout -b X

Switch to branch X

git checkout X

FIND

Find “text-to-find-here” in the content of files in the whole disk

find / -type f -exec grep -H 'text-to-find-here' {} \;

Find filenames which contain “text-to-find-here” in the whole disk

find / -name '*text-to-find-here*'

DRIVES

List the partition tables for devices mentioned in /proc/partitions.

sudo fdisk -l

NETWORK INTERFACES

See all available network interfaces

ip link show

See status of “network-interface-here”

ethtool network-interface-here

See route table

route -n ip route show

DATABASES

Connect to MySQL “YOUR_DB_HERE” with “YOUR_USER_HERE”

mysql -u YOUR_USER_HERE -p YOUR_DB_HERE

KERNEL MODULES

Load kernel module named “KERNEL_MODULE_HERE”

modprobe KERNEL_MODULE_HERE

Unload kernel module named “KERNEL_MODULE_HERE”

modprobe -r KERNEL_MODULE_HERE

PROCESSES

Kill all processes by NAME

pkill -f NAME