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cheat.sh provides unified access to the best community driven cheat sheets repositories of the world.
# To get a cheat sheet just use the following command
# Change <command> to command name, for instance, ls, id, curl, etc.
$ curl cheat.sh/<command>
# Cheat sheet for curl
$ curl cheat.sh/curl
aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line.
# Multi-thread downloading
$ aria2c -x5 <URL>
# Restarting aria2c continues unfinished download
$ aria2c -x5 <URL>
^C
$ aria2c -x5 <URL> # downloading continues
# Download torrent files (just pass the torrent file to the input)
$ aria2c <name>.torrent
# Enable all permissions for the owner, write permissions to the group and execute permissions to others
# or rwx-w---x
$ chmod 721 <name>
### Verbose form
# Enable user for rwx
$ chmod u+rwx <name>
# Enable group for w
$ chmod g+w <name>
# Enable others for x
$ chmod o+x <name>
# Enable everyone for x
$ chmod a+x <file>
### Remove permissions (use '-' instead of '+')
# Disable group and others for x
$ chmod og-x <name>
### setuid (4), setgid (2), sticky (1) bits
# Set setgid bit
# or rwxr-sr-x
$ chmod 2755 <name>
## Verbose form
# Set setuid bit
$ chmod u+s <name>
# Set setgid bit
$ chmod g+s <name>
# Set sticky bit
$ chmod o+t <name>
Useful operation mode:
# Case sensitive search
$ find / -name '*some*'
# Case insensitive search
$ find / -iname '*some*'
# ls style output formatting
$ find / -iname '*some*' -ls
# Delete found files (danger: there is no confirmation)
$ find dir_to_delete/ -delete
# Executing a script with search results
# Format:
# -exec <command> {} \;
# <commad> - script/command to execute
# {} - place for the found file
# \; - end of <command>
$ find / -iname '*some*' -exec ./script.sh {} \;
# Search string without using regex
# fgrep is an alias for grep -F
$ fgrep
# Using perl-compatible regex (or "real" regex)
$ grep -P
# Searching inside gz archives
$ zgrep
# Highlight found words in search results
$ grep --color=force
# Invert the sense of matching
$ grep -v
# grep by file contents
$ grep -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e 'pattern'
- Tab completion
- Help by
.method?+ enter - Embedding in a script for debugging using the interactive shell:from IPython import embed; embed()
$ ncdu /
Useful hotkeys:
- Navigation by arrows
s- sort by sizeC- sort by quantityc- show quantityd- delete
$ ./app1 | pv | ./app2
$ cat /dev/urandom | pv | xxd > /dev/null
# cat-like behavior with a progress bar
$ pv file | ./app
$ pv some_file.txt | bzip2 > /dev/null
# tar compression progress bar
$ tar cz /folder | pv > folder.tar.gz
# Network data transfer progress bar
$ pv folder.tar.gz | nc -nlvp 1337
# Monitor other process
$ pv -d PID
# Limit speed
$ pv file.txt -L 2 # 2 bytes per second
$ pv file.txt -L -l 2 # 2 lines per second
tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive.
Useful operation mode:
-c- create a new archive-f- use archive file or device ARCHIVE-j, --bzip2- compress/decompress the archive through bzip2-z, --gzip- compress/decompress the archive through gzip-t, --list- list the contents of an archive-x- extract files from an archive-C, --directory=DIR- change output directory to DIR-vverbosely list files processed
# Create tar archive
$ tar cf archive.tar foo bar
# Create bzip2 archive
$ tar cf archive.tar.bz2 foo bar
# Create gzip archive
$ tar cf archive.tar.gz foo bar
# Extract archive
$ tar xf archive.tar.gz
$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/somth12asd34
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