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Fayaz Ahmed
Fayaz Ahmed

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Some Useful Linux Commands I use at work.

#terminal #webdev

Whats my ip address? 

curl ifconfig.me
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Connect to remote server with ssh (via pem file) 

ssh -i ./file.pem username@ip_address
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Copy File local to remote server (via pem file) 

scp -i ./file.pem file.zip username@ip_address:/home/directory/file.zip
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Unzip a file 

unzip file.zip -d /location
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Kill a unresponsive PORT 

sudo lsof -t -i:PORT_NUMBER
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kill PID
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Kill a unresponsive app 

xkill
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Create a new file 

touch FILE_NAME.EXTENSION
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Search all files inside directory with line Number 

grep nr- 'Search Term' .
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List files 

ls - (List files in current directory)
ll - (List files in current directory with file permissions)
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Folder size 

du -sh *
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Unzip a .tar file 

tar -xvf FILE_NAME.tar
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Connect to SSH with username and ip address (Digital Ocean) 

ssh username@ip_address
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Display File content 

cat FILE_NAME.js
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Download a website 

wget https://google.com
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UBUNTU - Open current directory in File explorer (UI) 

nautilus .
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Felix Terkhorn •

Great set of tips, there were a couple new ones in here for me! Thanks! I'll now avoid asking Google for my IP 😉

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Fayaz Ahmed •

Used to do the same earlier.

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Dimitri Acosta •

I believe that ll is not actually a command, it is an alias of ls -alF (at least in Ubuntu) and it is not by default in all Linux distributions, though it is very useful when it is present.

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