Personal Command Reference/Cheat Sheet

Published: 2023-10-07 | Modified: 2023-10-14

Some common commands that I often forget and have to google for flags etc.

Linux

• Unzip a tar archive to current location

tar -xf filename.tar.gz 

• Unzip a tar archive to specific location

tar -xf file.name.tar -C /path/to/directory

• Zip with gzip a folder/file as a tar archive

tar -czf newfile.tar.gz file_to_be_zipped 

• Create symbolic link to a file/folder

ln -s path/to/file_folder /path/to/link/location 

• Download file from url to specific location

wget -P /path/to/directory URL 

• Find and delete all zone.identifier files (wsl specific quirk/pain)

find . -name "*:Zone.Identifier" -type f -delete 

• Get host information

hostnamectl 

• List process listening on port number

lsof -i:port_number 

• Kill process on port number

kill $(lsof -t -i:port_number) 

• Violently kill (-9 SIGKILL - terminate immediately/hard kill)

kill -9 $(lsof -t -i:8080) 

• Lookup details on a domain

nslookup -debug URL 

Nodenv, Node, Npm

• List all node versions installed

nodenv versions 

• Set global/systems node version

nodenv global <version_number> 

• Set global/systems node version

nodenv global <version_number> 

• Set current projects node version

nodenv local 0.10.0 

• List all packages installed globally