Linux Cheat Sheet 🐧

Back in College I took a Linux exam... with PEN AND PAPER! For context, this was in 2019, not even that long ago. The exam would ask questions like, "How would you create a new user and change their permissions from the command line?"

We then had to physically write out the commands in the provided box - it felt super old-school, but I'll tell you what: I've never forgotten those basic commands.

Nothing in your career will be more painful than screen sharing and not knowing how to navigate the terminal in front of a senior engineer. Commit these 65 commands to memory, and you'll never be lost:

1. ls: Lists files and directories in the current directory.

2. cd: Changes the current directory to another directory.

3. pwd: Displays the current directory path.

4. mkdir: Creates a new directory.

5. rmdir: Removes an empty directory.

Be careful with the next one: