Tuesday 16 April 2013

Best Cheat Sheets and Tutorials for Linux / UNIX Commands


Cheat sheet act as a reference tool which provides cut and paste kind of commands to complete a specific task. I often recommend following set of best cheat sheets to students and IT professionals. It include Linux / UNIX command and shell scripting.

Unix Toolbox

This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.
=> Visit UNIX Toolbox

UNIX Tutorial for Beginners

A beginners guide to the Unix and Linux operating system. Eight simple tutorials which cover the basics of UNIX / Linux commands.

Linux Command and Learning Shell Tutorials

You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, this site will show you what to do.

Learn UNIX in 10 minutes

This is something that I had given out to students (CAD user training) in years past. The purpose was to have on one page the basics commands for getting started using the UNIX shell (so that they didn't call me asking what to do the first time someone gave them a tape).

How To Look Like A UNIX Guru

This lecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how to combine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticated functionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what a shell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.

Linux command line reference

Another very good Linux command line reference for common operations.

Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

Links to good reference material on various topics.
=> Visit Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection (dead link removed)

Alphabetical Directory of Linux Commands

This directory of Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition. You can view total 687 commands to get a description and list of available options.

A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE)

A simple and nice lookup table for Linux / UNIX / BSD commands.

BigAdmin - System Administrator Resources and Community

Sun has BigAdmin portal with tons of information regarding UNIX, shell scripting and much more.

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