[+] nano Shortcuts
ctrl v Next page.
ctrl y Previous page.
ctrl w Where is (find).
ctrl k Cut that line of test.
ctrl x Exit editor.
[+] Create a text file:
touch file Creates an empty file.
ifconfig > tmp pipe the output of a command
nano file
[+] Create a file and append text to it:
ifconfig > tmp
echo >> tmp
ping google.com -c3 >> tmp
[+] How to view a file:
cat file Show entire contents of file.
more file Show one page at a time. Space bar for next page and (q) to exit.
head file Show the first 10 lines.
head -15 file Show the first 15 lines.
tail file Show the last 10 lines.
tail -15 file Show the last 15 lines.
tail -f file Useful when viewing the output of a log file.
[+] pipe
cat tmp | grep Bcast Feeds the output of one process to the input of another process.
[+] Processes
ps aux Show all running process for all users.
kill -9 PID Nicely kill a PID.
[+] Word Count
wc -l tmp2 Count the number of lines in a file
[+] cut
-d delimiter
-f fields
[+] sort
Sort by unique sort -u file
sort IP addresses correct sort -t . -k 1,1n -k 2,2n -k 3,3n -k 4,4n
cat tmp2 | cut -d '(' -f2 | cut -d ')' -f1 | sort -u Isolate the IP address
[+] awk
awk '{print $1}' file Show the 1st column.
awk '{print $1,$5}' file Show the 1st and 5th columns.
[+] grep
grep -v Remove a single string.
grep -v 'red' file
[+] egrep -v
Remove multiple strings egrep -v '(red|white|blue)' file
[+] sed
sed 's/FOO/BAR/g' file Replace FOO with BAR.
sed 's/FOO//g' file Replace FOO with nothing.
sed '/^FOO/d' file Remove lines that start with FOO.
[+] colour
31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan
echo -e "\e[1;34mThis is a blue text.\e[0m"
[+] Simple bash script:
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo
echo
print "Hello world."
[+] Make a file executable.
chmod +x file
chmod 755 file
[+] Variables
name=Bob
echo $name
user=$(whoami)
echo $user
echo 'Hello' $name. 'You are running as' $user.
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo "Hello World"
name=Bob
ip=`ifconfig | grep "Bcast:" | cut -d":" -f2 | cut -d" " -f1`
echo "Hello" $name "Your IP address is:" $ip
[+] User Input
read -p "Domain: " domain
#!/bin/bash
echo "Please input your domain:"
read -p "Domain:" domain
ping -c 5 $domain
[+] Check For No User Input
if [ -z $domain ]; then
echo
echo "#########################"
echo
echo "Invalid choice."
echo
exit
fi
[+] For loops
#!/bin/bash
for host in $(cat hosts.txt)
do
command $host
done
[+] One Liners
Port Scan:
for port in $(cat Ports.txt); do nc -nzv 192.168.0.1 $port & sleep 0.5; done