All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets

by Mark Sanborn on April 7, 2009

All the best Linux cheat sheets rounded up in one post broken down into Linux command line, Linux security, Linux administration, Gnome/KDE, sed/awk/vim, and distribution specific cheat sheets..

1. Linux Command Line

• Linux Reference Card – Great reference published on FOSSwire website
• One page Linux Manual – Great one page reference to the most popular Linux commands
• Unix Tool Box – An incredibly exhaustive reference for all things Linux.
• Treebeard’s Unix Cheat Sheet – A great reference with Dos comparisons
• Terminal Shortcuts – Cheat sheet for the most common terminal shortcuts
• More Terminal Shortcuts – More shortcuts for history and X

2. Linux Security

• Linux Security Quick Reference Guide – An awesome security checklist reference
• IP Tables – If you are interested in Linux firewalls this is a must have
• TCPDump – Great cheat sheet to an awesome security tool
• Wireshark Filters – An awesome list of filters for the best packet sniffing utility
• IP Access Lists – Cheat sheet for IP Access Lists
• Common Ports – In case you don’t have all common ports memorized
• netcat – Reference to the swiss army knife of networking

3. Linux Administration

• Linux Admin Quick Reference – PDF cheat sheet of common Linux administration tasks
• Crontab Reference – Also see Learning Cron by Example

4. Gnome/KDE

• Useful Gnome/KDE shortcuts
• KDE Cheat Sheet – KDE specific cheat sheet

5. sed/awk/vim and other tools

• Vi Cheat Sheet – Who doesn’t love Vi/Vim. Also check out my guest post on Vim.
• Concise Vim Cheat Sheet
• awk nawk and gawk cheat sheet – Awesome awk sheet, also check out awk is a beautiful tool
• Sed Stream Editor Cheat Sheet – Savvy Sed
• Screen Quick Reference – Quick reference to a must have screen emulator, Also check out Introduction to GNU Screen
• Screen Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet – PDF cheat sheet for screen
• Vi/Vim Cheat Sheet – Nice vim/vi keyboard layout reference

6. Distro Specific

• Ubuntu Cheat Sheet – Ubuntu specific cheat sheet
• Debian Cheat Sheet – Debian specific cheat sheet

7. Everything Else

• Online Man Pages – The ultimate cheat sheet repository. Also use the ‘man‘ command.

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16 Responses

1. Eric Wendelin

   4-7-2009

   

   I’m surprised you didn’t include your awesome Vim post. Regardless, I have a LOT of new reading to do
2. Peteris Krumins

   4-7-2009

   

   Lots of my cheat sheets here:

   http://www.catonmat.net/projects/cheat-sheets
3. Peteris Krumins

   4-7-2009

   

   Also, hi Eric
4. Mark Sanborn

   4-7-2009

   

   Anyone interested in more of the sed/awk “power tools” of Linux check out Peteris Krumins site posted above. I have learned a lot from his blog.

   Forgot about the vim article Eric, I’ll link it up.
5. The Dozy Kraut

   4-8-2009

   

   There is a nice concise cheat sheet in html format at:
   http://www.pixelbeat.org/vim.tips.html
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7. Eric Wendelin

   4-8-2009

   

   Hello again, Peteris. Good to see you around here.
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    5-12-2009

    

    Yes, this is good. I have a lot a reading to accomplish.
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    5-23-2009

    

    Haha! Pretty good cheat sheets you have there!
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15. spuffler

    9-24-2009

    

    Once more, another ‘blog that promotes ten year old documents… do you realize how frequently Linux applications and binaries get updated? In some cases, whole rewrites have occurred on some Linux binaries? Maybe your readers could benefit from you actually verifying some (or all) off what you post. That is to say, if you CAN verify things like these.
    It isn’t easy when someone needs such cheat sheets, only to find the syntax or the whole options list is well outdated.
16. Software Developer

    11-9-2009

    

    Good list on Linux cheat sheets thank you for sharing it with us. Look forward to see more..