Software > Cheat Sheets > BASH

• Grep recursively
• RSync to an alternate port
• Zipping directories recursively
• Count the number of lines of text in a text file
• Secure Copy from a remote host
• Basic User Functions

grep -r search_string /base-dir/to/search/

rsync --progress --rsh='ssh -p8023' somefile user@host:somedir/

zip zip_file_name -r path_to_zip *
unzip zip_file_name -d path_to_extract

wc -l text.txt

scp user@remote.addr.com:file_name local_path/file_name

cat /etc/passwd

sudo passwd user_name