Linux Cheat Sheets

[pkrumins]

Hey! While learning various linux tools in the past, I made several cheat sheets to speed up learning process. Recently I decided to put them on my blog.

Here is a link to all the cheat sheets on my blog:
cheat sheets at catonmat (my blog)

They include:
* awk (awk, nawk and gawk) programming language cheat sheet,
* sed, unix stream editor, cheat sheet,
* ed, interactive unix text editor, cheat sheet,
* perl's special variable cheat sheet,
* perl's pack/unpack and printf/sprintf function cheat sheet,
* screen vt100 terminal emulator cheat sheet,
* bash vi editing mode (readline) cheat sheet, and
* bash emacs editing mode cheat sheet.

Tell me what you think, and I hope you find them useful!

ps. I have 5-10 more to publish, if you are interested, check back and possibly subscribe to my posts via rss


Sincerely,
Peteris Krumins

[cousinlucky]

I think it might prove easier for me to climb a high mountain than to learn " Linux ". or anything about computers. When I was young I was advised to always have a dictionary handy whenever I was reading a book. I was told that if I came across a word and I did not know the words meaning I should look it up in the dictionary before I read past that word.

With Linux and computers just about every word I read I do not have any idea what it means. When I look it up on Wikipedia or google the explainations are full of words I also have to spend time to look up.

Recently I sought information about configuring the AppArmor with my Suse 10 os. I was advised to learn about Iptables. So I googled Iptables and found a downloadable explaination. The download ended up being over 100MBs. The file is in my Linux folder but I doubt if I will ever open it up.

I am intrigued by your " cheat sheets " concept to learning Linux. Maybe someday I will be able to read them.

[gruven]

Very nice. I have bookmarked your site for future reference, and will be reading a few of the "cheatsheets".

Keep up the good work!

[pcxman]

What did he say. I dont understand any of it. Well maybe a little.

[SkittleLinux18]

The dictionary idea was good advice. And to think, I have been advised to mount a rocket launcher to the front hood of my car.

hahahahahahahaha

[pkrumins]

Hi all! I just wrote a another article with a cheat sheet. It's called "The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History". This tutorial teaches you how to quickly retrieve and modify commands you executed previously.

It starts by reviewing the keyboard shortcuts for history retrieval in emacs and vi editing modes, then it covers the commands for listing and erasing the history, then it goes into discussing history expansion mechanism - event designators, word designators and their modifiers. Finally the guide lists variables and options to modify the default history behavior.

The cheat sheet comes in PDF, Plain Text ASCII and LaTeX:

• PDF format (.pdf): bash history cheat sheet (.pdf)
• ASCII .txt format: bash history cheat sheet (.txt)
• LaTeX format (.tex): bash history cheat sheet (latex .tex)

Sincerely,
Peteris Krumins