Linux Commands Cheat Sheet Every DevOps Engineer Should Know

Linux fluency is non-negotiable for DevOps and cloud roles. This cheat sheet covers the 80 commands you'll use most.

Navigation

cd, ls, pwd, tree, find

Files & text

cat, less, grep, sed, awk, tail -f

Permissions

chmod, chown, umask, sudo

Processes

ps, top, htop, kill, systemctl

Networking

ss, netstat, curl, dig, traceroute