Linux

Console shortcuts

• Ctrl + Z: stop (fg/bg)
• Ctrl + Y: stop only when process tries to read input from console
• Ctrl + S/Q: XON/XOFF (Shift + PgUp/PgDn to scroll)
• Ctrl + L: clear screen
• Ctrl + A/E: beginning/end of line
• Alt + F/B: forward/back one word

Screen

• -S <session name> Start session with name
• -e <program to start>
• -r Attach
• -ls List sessions
• -x <session name> Attach to open session

^A followed by

• d detach
• c new window
• A rename window
• w list windows
• " selectable window list
• 0-9 select window 0-9
• TAB change region focus
• Q make current region only one visible
• X kill region
• ^\ kill everything (including all processes)!
• M monitor window for activity
• _ monitor window for inactivity
• a send ^A to session

•  ? list all possible commands
•  : screen command prompt
  •  :sessionname <name>
  •  :multiuser on
  •  :aclchg <user> +r "#" Read perms on all windows
  •  :acldel <user>

http://www.bangmoney.org/presentations/screen.html

Useful apps

Squid:

• squidtaild
• squidclient
• srg
• squidview
• calamaris
• sarg

Highlighter:

• ccze

Cleaning useless Debian items:

• localepurge
• deborphan
• debfoster

Monitoring:

• iptraf
• bmon

WebDAV:

• cadaver
• nd

Redirection

• stdout and/or stderr:

foo > bar 2>&1
command &>file
command >&file
foo 2>&1 | bar

command1 2> file1

Recording the screen

Recording:

script -t 2> tutorial.timing -a tutorial.session

Playback:

scriptreplay tutorial.timing tutorial.session

Prevent screen blanking

setterm -blank 0

Using rsync for local file comparisons

rsync -avnhW "Desktop/My Passport/Mitsubishi090109_10" "/Volumes/My Passport"

tcpdump with greater snarf size

tcpdump -s 1500 -w out-file.pcap <expression>

Scripts

• lesspipe.sh

Use in conjuction with environment variables:

export LESS=-R
export LESSOPEN="|/usr/local/bin/lesspipe.sh %s"

Script:

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
*.log.[0-9]*.gz) gunzip -c $1 2>/dev/null | ccze -A
        ;;
*.log|*.log.[0-9]*) cat $1 | ccze -A
        ;;
*.gz) gunzip -c $1 2>/dev/null
        ;;
esac

• Nice terminal colours:

export PAGER='less -R -s -i'
# Blink
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[05;31m'
# Bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;33m'
# End above modes
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'
# End standout
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'
# Stand out
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[00;44;33m'
# End underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'
# Underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;32m'

• Log file viewers:

sudo tail -F -n 50 --max-unchanged-stats=5 /var/log/apache2/access.log | ccze
sudo tail -F --max-unchanged-stats=5 -n 50 /var/log/squid/access.log | ccze -C
sudo tail -F --max-unchanged-stats=5 -n 100000 /var/log/auth.log 2> /dev/null | grep --line-buffered -E "(sshd).*(Accepted)" | ccze
sudo watch -d -t 'netstat -p -t | grep ESTABLISHED'