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In-house Commands

`echo` command

Decode string with specify unicode-escaped with -e flag, read more at: StackOverFlow - How to convert \uXXXX unicode to UTF-8 using console tools in *nix

Note

You can use uni2ascii for instead if you want to integrate with 3rd party

echo -e "unicode-string"

`journalctl` command

Documentation: How To Use Journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs

Capture and logged full events of service

journalctl -u service-name.service

To see only log messages for the current boot

journalctl -u service-name.service -b

Find your boots in list

journalctl --list-boots

See the error log with command

journalctl -p err -b

Info

You can exchange -p option with pram

0: emerg

1: alert

2: crit

3: err

4: warning

5: notice

6: info

7: debug

`grep` command

Use grep with exclude by -v flag

grep -v "dotnet" .

To grep include multiple word

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Use -i flag to execute that. Especially add with \| symbol between two words. Read more at: How to Grep for Multiple Strings, Patterns or Words, extending with multiple situations (HELPFUL)

grep -i "Hostname\|Port"

`awk` command

Skip first line Usually header when you use awk to print column variables

awk 'NR>1 {print $3}'

Get the last param when seperate by / or any symbol, you can use F and $NF to get the result

awk -F/ '{print $NF}'

`tree` command

Print the sub-directory of folder with configuration level

tree -d -L 2 .

Print the sub file and folder with filter not include smt with -I option. Explore at StackOverFlow - tree command for multiple includes and excludes

# With only
tree -a -L 1 -I .git
 
# With multiple
tree -a -L 1 -I '.git|.terraform.lock.hcl'

Print tree with combine full path, include and exclude pattern

tree -f -I "bin|unitTest" -P "*.[ch]|*.[ch]pp." your_dir/

`find` command

Find the folder with find base on the regex format

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex '.*/azp/_work/\d+$'

Find directory in current location but expose that in format ls

find . -type d -ls

Find the file or directory to provide you last in path of file and directory

find . -maxdepth 2 -type d | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'

`iptables` command

Learn more about iptables commands from links down below

Allow only traffic from external IP to host via port

sudo iptables -A INPUT -s <source> -p <tcp/udp> --dport <destination-port> -j ACCEPT

Block all traffic to specify port in host

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p <tcp/udp> --dport <destination-port> -j DROP

List all rule and table rule

# List all rules
sudo iptables -S
 
# list all tables rules
sudo iptables -L -v -n | more
 
# list all rules for INPUT tables
sudo iptables -L INPUT -v -n

Delete rule in iptables

# Basic command to delete
sudo iptables -F
 
# To specify you want
# Find your rule base on number
iptables -L INPUT --line-numbers
# Remove that base on number of line
iptables -D INPUT <specific-line-number>
 
# IYKYN, use `-D` flag for same command `-A` to remove that rule

`tr` command

Use tr to delete with -d flag

tr -d "HostName:Port" # If find 2 word, seperate with space
tr -d "HostNamePort" # If find 2 word, no space add-on

Use tr to change space to colon, ⇒ :

tr -s "[:blank:]" ":"

`ssh` command

Use tunneling mode of ssh to reverse shell from remote to your local host

Info

Command below to port-forward from port 127.0.0.1:8080 from remote host and send the traffic to port :8080 inside your host

ssh -N -L 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 -i /path/to/your/private_key <user>@<remote-host> -p <port-ssh> # Default ssh via port 22, use -p if you need to specific

`jq` command

List of articles relate jq with helpful solution

You can use jq to select multiple variable

cat app.json | jq -r '.expo | .name, .version'

You can use jq to select multiple variable and concat that to one string

cat app.json | jq -r '(.expo.name + "." + .expo.version)'

You can use jq with variable to pass through from command or define to your jq

curl -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $PRIVATE_GLAB_TOKEN" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/$GLAB_USER_ID/contributed_projects" | jq --arg REPO_CHECKED_NAME "$REPO_CHECKED_NAME" '.[] | select(.name == $REPO_CHECKED_NAME) | .id'

jq support for another arg like json, you can try to concat object this one with your existence object. Explore more at Add an object to existing JSON using jq and Append JSON Objects using jq

cat ~/config-bk.json | jq -r --argjson addon "$(cat ~/.docker/config.json | jq -r ".auths")" '.auths+=$addon'

Convert json to string for multiple purpose

cat file.json | jq -c | jq -R

Get first keys in list object with jq

cat config-bk.json | jq  'keys[]'

Select the keys if value of a field is “auto”. Explore at Select the keys if value of a field is “auto”

# Get the object with value = auto
jq 'map_values(select(.value == "auto"))' file
# Get key with same situation
jq -r 'map_values(select(.value == "auto"))|keys[]' file

`du` command

You can use du command for list all size inside your directory

# List folder only
du -csh xeusnguyen.xyz
 
# List file inside
du -csh xeusnguyen.xyz/*

`lsblk` command

If you want to take the look with your storage device like HDD or SSD, you can use lsblk to see what format of those devices

# View information about your disk
lsblk -o NAME,HCTL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
 
# View output info about filesystems
lsblk -f


File System	Supported File Size	Compatibility	Ideal Usage
FAT32	up to 4 GB	Windows, Mac, Linux	For maximum compatibility
NTFS	16 EiB – 1 KB	Windows, Mac (read-only), most Linux distributions	For internal drives and Windows system file
Ext4	16 GiB – 16 TiB	Windows, Mac, Linux (requires extra drivers to access)	For files larger than 4 GB

`mkfs` command

You can use mkfs command to formatting your device. Read more at How to Use the mkfs Command on Linux

mkfs [options] [-t type fs-options] device [size]

`fdisk` command

Documentation: What is FDISK and how does it work?

Use fdisk when you want to hangout with your hard dkkkkkkkkkkkkkisk drive, like integrate multiple way for formatting or partitioning a hard disk drive, or to delete different portions of it. FDISK is an external utility. It is most commonly used to prepare and partition a hard drive

# to view details of available disk partitions.
sudo fdisk -l
# to view the partitions on a specific disk.
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
# to create a hard disk partition.
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
# to view the partition size.
sudo fdisk -s /dev/sda

And when you want to hit to interaction mode you can try with

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

And when you hit keyboard with m, you can see the helper

Command (m for help): m
 
Help:
 
  GPT
   M   enter protective/hybrid MBR
 
  Generic
   d   delete a partition
   F   list free unpartitioned space
   l   list known partition types
   n   add a new partition
   p   print the partition table
   t   change a partition type
   v   verify the partition table
   i   print information about a partition
 
  Misc
   m   print this menu
   x   extra functionality (experts only)
 
  Script
   I   load disk layout from sfdisk script file
   O   dump disk layout to sfdisk script file
 
  Save & Exit
   w   write table to disk and exit
   q   quit without saving changes
 
  Create a new label
   g   create a new empty GPT partition table
   G   create a new empty SGI (IRIX) partition table
   o   create a new empty DOS partition table
   s   create a new empty Sun partition table

`scp` command

Documentation: SCP Command in Linux {13 Examples}

scp is protocol which permit use copy and transfer file from remote and local machine with bi-direction, or cp from remote to remote

# From local to remote
scp /path/file/local user@ip:/path/file/remote
 
# From remote to local
scp user@ip:/path/file/remote /path/file/local
 
# From remote to remote
scp user1@ip1:/path/file/remote1 user2@ip2:/path/file/remote2
 
# From remote to remote (but your machine is mediate)
scp -3 user1@ip1:/path/file/remote1 user2@ip2:/path/file/remote2

In some special case, you can integrate with option with your scp command to specific

Different Port: Usually scp use SSH (Port 22) to mediate help you secure transfer data through that port, but in other situation SSH not work in Port 22, you can use -p to specific

scp -p 2222 /path/file/local user@ip:/path/file/remote

Recursive: To copy whole folder, usually we use recursive mode and scp does have with -r

scp -r /path/folder/ user@ip:/path/file/remote

`sed` command

Documentation: Sed cheatsheet and How to Use Sed to Find and Replace a String in a File

To replace a string in file with sed, you can use command with format

#Replace in file (Global)
sed -i 's/OLD/NEW/g' path/file #Replace string inside a file

To replace in the string, you can control action with

echo "[MASKED]" | sed -e "s/\[MASKED\]/123456789/g"

External Commands

Caddy server

Use the documentation to get valid command to handling Caddy Server

To reload configuration use reload command. Doc: caddy reload

caddy reload --config /location/caddy/file

To check and validate configuration from caddyfile use validate command. Doc: caddy validate

caddy validate --config /location/caddy/file

Note

With Caddy V2, mostly websocket automatically serve and do not need to configuration like v1 . Check about that in Caddy Proxy

Vagrant

If you have problems when vagrant can’t authentication for ssh. You will need concern to add this setting. Read more at: Vagrant ssh authentication failure

Vagrantfile

config.ssh.forward_agent = true

Pip3 of Python

With Python3 from version 3.12, there isn’t gonna easy for us to install package, so if you want to force install with python3-pip, you can add the optional --break-system-packages after the pip command

pip3 install numpy --break-system-packages

With read from file, we can do same way

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --break-system-packages

Keytool of Java

Explore more about keytool through Common Java Keytool Commands

Get keystroke information

To view and check information which store inside keystroke, which generate from keytool - key generator integrate into Java

keytool -list -v -keystore /path/to/your/keystore-file.keystore -alias your-key-alias -storepass your-keystore-password -keypass your-key-password

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`echo` command

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`grep` command

`awk` command

`tree` command

`find` command

`iptables` command

`tr` command

`ssh` command

`jq` command

`du` command

`lsblk` command

`mkfs` command

`fdisk` command

`scp` command

`sed` command

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echo command

journalctl command

grep command

awk command

tree command

find command

iptables command

tr command

ssh command

jq command

du command

lsblk command

mkfs command

fdisk command

scp command

sed command

External Commands

Caddy server

Vagrant

Pip3 of Python

Keytool of Java

Get keystroke information

Graph View

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`echo` command

`journalctl` command

`grep` command

`awk` command

`tree` command

`find` command

`iptables` command

`tr` command

`ssh` command

`jq` command

`du` command

`lsblk` command

`mkfs` command

`fdisk` command

`scp` command

`sed` command