3 Shell & command line
Every entry filed under Shell & command line and its subtopics.
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What do these mean?
- Beginner
- You are new to this topic.
- Intermediate
- You use it, and want to get better.
- Advanced
- You know it well and need the details.
- Guided project
- Build something small from start to finish, step by step.
- Explains an idea
- Plain words on how something works and why.
- Step by step
- Numbered steps to get one task done.
- Cheat sheet
- Commands and options in a table, to look up fast.
- Fixes an error
- An error message, what it means, and how to solve it.
5 entries match these filters
- 0421 grep, sed, awk and jq: the four text tools you will use every week A working reference for the four commands that handle most text on the command line: grep finds lines, sed edits them, awk… Intermediate · Cheat sheet · Linux, macOS Article jq & JSON on the command line · Modern command-line tools · Text processing 15 Oct 2026
- 0346 The SSH config file: aliases, jump hosts and keys per server Reference for ~/.ssh/config: short names for servers, the right user, port and key per host, ProxyJump through a bastion, connection reuse and… Intermediate · Cheat sheet · Linux, macOS, Windows Article Keys & config · SSH 15 Oct 2026
- 0108 List all Proxmox VE guests with status and locks (pvesh + jq) A Bash script that lists every VM and container in the cluster with node, status, lock, memory and uptime, using the Proxmox… Intermediate · Cheat sheet · Linux Script Shell scripting · VMs & containers 15 Oct 2026
- 0076 jq recipes: 23 one-liners for JSON on the command line A runnable collection of jq filters for everyday JSON work: pick fields, filter with select, reshape, sort, count, group, pass shell variables,… Intermediate · Cheat sheet · Linux, macOS, Windows Script Command-line tools · jq & JSON on the command line 15 Oct 2026
- 0058 Safe bash script template with set ‑euo pipefail and trap A starting point for bash scripts that stops on errors, rejects unset variables, cleans up temp files on exit and parses options.… Intermediate · Cheat sheet · Linux, macOS Script Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026