Cheat Sheet Raspberry Pi - Linux

In this entry I would document some interesting linux commands to use in the raspberry pi

• To see the history of commands you typed

  history
  

• Different for sudo and user

  crontab -e
  

• To connect to the raspberry pi remotely from other laptop through ssh

  ssh user@ipofthehost
  

• Correr el script y guardar el output en output.log

  nohup python /path/to/test.py > output.log &
  

• Ver que PID tiene el script de python

  ps ax | grep test.py
  

• Matar el proceso (PID = el numero)

  kill PID
  

• list of devices

  dmesg
  

• list of USB devices

  lsusb
  

• kernel of linux used

  uname -r
  

• look for “8192” in /

  find / -name "8192" -print
  

• check loaded modules

  lsmod
  

• mount network device need cifs-utils needs root

  mount -t cifs -o username=juan //server /localfolder
  

• change samba password of osmc user

  smbpasswd -a osmc
  

• delete folder and its content

  rm -r foldername
  rm -rf foldername // Use f to force deleting
  

• Download file from ssh server

  scp pi@pisalamanca:/home/pi/ovpns/jfdzar_mobile.ovpn jfdzar_mobile.ovpn
  

• Check the disk usage of a directory

  du -h --max-depth=1 /Media/