25 Quick Linux Command Line Tips - Part 4

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76. How to change system date ?

 

# date -s "December 25 2007 01:01:01"

 

77. How to know your free base memory and other memory / swap statistics ?

 

# free

 

78. How to show disk space usage of your filesystem in human readable form?

 

# df -ah

 

79. How to get the top 10 of your mbox mail users?

 

# cd /var/spool/mail

# ls -lS | head -10

 

80. How to find process ID of a running service like httpd?

 

# pidof httpd

 

81. How to locate a binary file, command source and its man pages?

 

# whereis ping

 

82. How to find the location of a executable file that could have been executed when entered from a prompt?

 

# which ping

 

83. How to download ISO or any file from web using command line?

 

# wget -c www.google.com/testfile.txt

# wget -c ftp://google.com/google.ISO

 

84. How to transfer file via ssh?

 

# scp -c testfile.txt user@remote-hostname

 

85. How to transfer files that has been only changed from one host to another without taking comparison?

 

# rsync -avz remoteserver:/home/remotefolder /home/localfolder

 

86. How to transfer your identity.pub into a remote machine's authorized_keys?

 

# ssh-copy-id -i identity-rsa-dsa.pub user@remote-hostname

 

87. How to know who you are in a shell?

 

# whoami

 

88. How to get more real-time view linux process stats and info?

 

# top

 

89. How to issue a continuous trace route to a host?

 

# mtr host-ip-addres

 

90. How to trace route without resolving IP address?

 

# mtr --no-dns hostname

 

91. What is another text-based alternative to chkconfig?

 

# ntsysv

 

92. How to list out current cron jobs?

 

# crontab -l

 

93. How to get the CPU time?

 

# clock

 

94. How to set date and time from NTP server?

 

# ntpdate 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org

 

95. How to show current system path?

 

# set | grep PATH

 

96. How to list out currently loaded kernel modules?

 

# lsmod

 

97. How to know the total days of your system without reboot?

 

# uptime

 

98. How to get a system bootstrapped from redhat network?

 

# /usr/bin/go-rhn.sh

 

99. How to see current running user jobs?

 

# jobs

 

100. How to edit text files from terminal?

 

# vi textfile.txt

# nano textfile.txt

# joe textfile.txt

# vim textfile.txt

# pico textfile.txt (if pico is installed - Pico is a trademark of the University of Washington)

# tee vv

Edited March 30, 2018 by Fearless News