Unix Command-Line Cheat Sheet BTI2014

Unix Command-Line Cheat Sheet BTI2014

• 1.
  Text handling commandsTexthandling commands command > file saves STDOUT in a file command >> file appends STDOUT in a file cat file concatenate and print files cat file1 file2 > file3 merges files 1 and 2 into file3 cat *fasta > all.fasta concatenates all fasta files in the current directory head file prints first lines from a file head -n 5 file prints first five lines from a file tail file prints last lines from a file tail -n 5 file prints last five lines from a file less file view a file less -N file includes line numbers less -S file wraps long lines grep ‘pattern’ file Prints lines matching a pattern grep -c ‘pattern’ file counts lines matching a pattern cut -f 1,3 file retrieves data from selected columns in a tab-delimited file sort file sorts lines from a file sort -u file sorts and return unique lines uniq -c file filters adjacent repeated lines wc file counts lines, words and bytes paste file1 file2 concatenates the lines of input files paste -d “,” concatenates the lines of input files by commas sed transforms text File system CommandsFile system Commands ls lists directories and files ls -a lists all files including hidden files ls -lh formatted list including more data ls -t lists sorted by date pwd returns path to working directory cd dir changes directory cd .. goes to parent directory cd / goes to root directory cd goes to home directory touch file_name creates en empty file cp file file_copy copy a file cp -r copy files contained in directories rm file deletes a file rm -r dir deletes a directory and its files mv file1 file2 moves or renames a file mkdir dir_name creates a directory rmdir dir_name deletes a directory locate file_name searches a file man command shows commands manual top shows process activity df -h shows disk space info apt-get install installs applications in linux Networking CommandsNetworking Commands wget URL download a file from an URL ssh user@server connects to a server scp copy files between computers Compression commandsCompression commands gzip/zip compress a file gunzip/unzip decompress a file tar -cvf groups files tar -xvf ungroups files tar -zcvf groups and gzip files tar -zxvf gunzip and ungroups files UNIX Command-Line Cheat Sheet BTI-SGN Bioinformatics Course 2014