Some of the commands I often use:
rSearch all log files for the word debug case insensitive
$ grep -i debug /var/www/html/register_by_email/var/logs/*.log
Delete all files except one:
$ sudo ls | grep -v 000-default.conf | sudo xargs rm
The same but ignore errors:
$ sudo rm /etc/apache2/ssl/*.* &>/dev/null && cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/ && sudo ls | grep -v 000-default.conf | sudo xargs rm &>/dev/null && cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ && sudo ls | grep -v 000-default.conf | sudo xargs rm &>/dev/null
Advanced copy of files using regular expressions: from a folder with csv files named using a date format like DK20170514.csv this command will copy only files with date from 14 may to 12 june.
$ sudo find -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/??20170(5(1[4-9]|2[0-9])|6(0[0-9]|1[0-2]))\.csv' | xargs cp -t ../../../special/41393/ &>/dev/null
Note the .*/ in the beginning of the regex: find needs this to work!
Watch how crons work
watch -n 0.1 'ls -1 | wc -l'
Copy a log file from remote to local using ssh
scp -i ~/.ssh/abdel some-server:/var/www/html/myapp/var/logs/dev.log local_dev.log
Display end of file: useful for live debugging single or multiple log files
tail -n 4 -f var/logs/*.*
List all users
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
http://www.numediaweb.com/wordpress/wp-admin/profile.php
List apache current user
ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
Change a user’s password
sudo passwd someuser
List user associated groups: ex. jenkins
grep '^jenkins:' /etc/group
List user groups
id aidrissi
List all groups
cut -d: -f1 /etc/group
Add a user to a group
usermod -a -G examplegroup exampleusername
Change owner of a folder to “me”
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
Use this form to change group aswell with -R for recrussive: chown {-R} [user]{:group} [file|directory]
To create a new symlink (will fail if symlink exists already):
ln -s /path/to/file /path/to/symlink
To create or update a symlink:
ln -sf /path/to/file /path/to/symlink
Test mail sending usin ‘mail’ Command:
mail -s "Test Subject" user@example.com < /dev/null
Get current IP using an external server (you can use nslookup example.com)
curl 'http://ipecho.net/plain'; echo
Get current server time:
date '+%A %W %Y %X'
Chmod command: changing file permissions
chmod [who][+,-,=][permissions] filename
[who]: u=>user, g=>group, o=>others, a=>all
[+,-,=]: The + operator grants permissions whereas the – operator takes away permissions. The parameter g=u means grant group permissions to be same as the user’s.
Get the chmod numerical value for a file
stat --format '%a' file.txt
chmod -R +w,g=rw,o-rw, ~/group-project-files/
The -R option applies the modification to the permissions recursively to the directory specified and to all of its contents.
Here is an example of a file permission through octal notation that is equivalent to chmod u=rwx,go=rx.
chmod 750 ~/group-project.txt
List all environement variables
env
Find domain IP:
dig google.com +noall +answer