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Linux Commands

Get familiar with the environment

Listing some useful ones:
• id: know yourself
• w: who is logged in (-f to find where they are logging in from)
• lsblk: list block storage devices • lscpu: display info about the CPUs
• lstopo: display hardware topology (need hwloc, hwloc-gui packages)
• free: free and used memory (try free -g)

Command Navigation

• lsb_release: distribution info (try -a)
Be nice and fly under the radar, eg.: nice -n 19 tar cvzf archive.tgz large_dir

Saving some time and hair follicles

!! repeats the last command
• !$ change command keep last argument: • cat states.txt # file too long to fit screen • less !$ #reopen it with less
• !* change command keep all arguments: • head states.txt | grep '^Al' #should be tail • tail !* #no need to type the rest of the command

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Scheduling Tasks

Anatomy of crontab entry
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