GNU Bash Shell (Unix)

Topics

Commands

Compression

Database

Files

Permissions

Printing

SSH

Scripting

Space on disk

Pages

• Architecture
• Batch
• Cross language

  How to run a shell command from another language

• Data manipulation
• Dotenv file

  A .env file is a simple text file used to store environment variables for an application.

• Fix WSL time
• GNU
• Get info
• Hardware

  Get info on your hardware from the shell

• Help
• Image Magick

  Create, edit, compose, or convert digital images in a variety of formats

• Installed shells
• Links
• Network manager
• Networking

  How to connect your machine to a network and find your IP address

• Permissions
• Processes

  Working with Processes in Bash

• Scheduling
• Searching
• Shell requests
• Sudoers

  How to act as the root user

• System

  Get info on the running state of your machine

• User
• Vim

  Guide to using the vim editor

• ZSH

Content

What is covered here:

• Use-cases
  • Shell scripting
  • Command-line
  • Manage your system’s configs and packages.
• Operating systems
  • Linux (Debian/Ubuntu focus)
  • macOS
• Shells
  • Bash (this is the focus)
  • ZSH (notes are provided where behavior is different for ZSH)

Resources

• devhints.io/bash
• Bash cheatsheets on Cheatography.
• Shell in Learn to Code project.

See also shellcheck - as shell script static analysis tool.

Related

• Git cheatsheet section