Share your commandline cheat sheets

**Sam** · October 30th, 2008

Bash advanced features:

http://www.deadman.org/bash.html
http://www.deadman.org/bash2.html

**dbbolton** · October 30th, 2008

Here's a simple but good one to help you find the name of a command:

Code:

ls /usr/bin | grep "searchterm"

Or for root commands

Code:

ls /usr/sbin | grep "searchterm"

**Grant A.** · October 30th, 2008

My cheat sheet is quite obvious.

**caljohnsmith** · October 30th, 2008

Originally Posted by dbbolton

Here's a simple but good one to help you find the name of a command:

Code:

ls /usr/bin | grep "searchterm"

Or for root commands

Code:

ls /usr/sbin | grep "searchterm"

If the command you want to find begins with "searchterm", you can just use tab-completion to do the search by entering the the search term, and then hitting tab twice to see a list of commands that begin with your search term, for example:

Code:

user@ubuntu-computer:~$ wh     <--press TAB twice and get:
whatis    which     whiptail  whoami    
whereis   while     who       whoi

Of course tab-completion will search all paths in your $PATH, so if you specifically want to search /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, then your method would work. Also, if you want to search for "update-grub" by entering "grub", you would have to use something like your method since the tab completion would only find commands that start with "grub", like "grub-install".