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List of convenient shell commands. #cheatsheet

I'll be collecting any convenient snippets of shell commands I find and use in here.

sudo service smbd start sudo service smbd restart sudo service smbd stop

Respectively tries to start restart or stop any service smbd (Samba, as an example).

du -h -d 1 | sort --human-numeric-sort -r

Lists all top-level folders by their total size in decreasing order.

history

Shows a list of all executed shell commands that is still recorded.

! ###

Runs the specific numbered entry in history.

nmap -sP 192.168.1.1/24

Lists all reachable peers on the network 192.168.1.1/24 (which is 192.168.1.0 over 255.255.255.0).

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