Linux Command Cheat Sheet
Basic Commands
| #Pipe (redirect) output
Sudo [command] #Run <command> in superuser mode
Nohup [command] #Run <command> immune to hangup signal
man [command] #Display help page of <command>
[command] & #Run <command> and send task to background
>> [pourifile] #Append to “pourifile”, preserving existing contents
> [messifile] #Output to “messifile”, overwriting contents
echo -n #Display a line of text arguments to the standard output, and do not append a newline
xargs #Build command line from previous output
1>2& #Redirect stdout to stderr
fg %N #Go to task N
jobs #List task
ctrl-z #Suspend current task