My Linux Cheat Sheet
A list of useful commands
User management
# create a user
USERNAME=foo
useradd $USERNAME
# reset password
USERNAME=foo
passwd $USERNAME
# add an existing user to a group
USERNAME=foo
GROUP=www
usermod -a -G $GROUP $USERNAME
cat /user/group
# remove user
USERNAME=foo
userdel $USERNAME
# add a user to a group
USERNAME=foo
GROUP=www-data
usermod -a -G $GROUP $USERNAME
Archive
# Create an archive
OUTPUT=archive.tar.gz
INPUT=folder
tar -zcvf $OUTPUT $INPUT
# Extract archive
OUTPUT=folder
INPUT=archive.tar.gz
tar -zxvf $INPUT -C $OUTPUT
Utilities
# disk usage
df -h
# find out who is taking too much place
du -hsx /* | sort -rh
network
IP_TO_CHECK=0.0.0.0
nmap -PN $IP_TO_CHECK
GIT
# change commit timestamp
LC_ALL=C GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="$(date)" git commit --amend --no-edit --date "$(date)"