Terminal commands at hand

Basic and advanced commands for popular services. Sign in with Google to make any page your own and add your own commands.

Databases

Elasticsearch / OpenSearch

Cluster health, indices and shards, searching, mappings and reindexing — via the REST API with curl.

16 commands

MongoDB

mongosh, queries and updates, indexes, aggregation, mongodump backups and diagnostics.

24 commands

MySQL

mysql client, databases and users, backups, troubleshooting.

23 commands

PostgreSQL

psql and its meta-commands, roles, pg_dump backups and finding slow queries.

23 commands

Redis

redis-cli, working with keys and TTL, monitoring and finding big keys.

16 commands

SQLite

sqlite3 shell, dot-commands, importing and exporting CSV, backups and pragmas.

15 commands

Queues & streaming

Apache Kafka

Topics, console producer and consumer, consumer groups, lag and offset resets.

19 commands

RabbitMQ

rabbitmqctl and rabbitmqadmin: queues, consumers, users and vhosts, purging and publishing.

18 commands

Containers & orchestration

Docker

Containers, images, logs, Docker Compose and disk cleanup.

22 commands

Helm

Repositories, installing and upgrading releases, values, rollbacks and debugging templates.

18 commands

Kubernetes (kubectl)

Contexts, pods, logs, deployments, debugging and port-forward.

23 commands

Cloud & infrastructure as code

Ansible

Ad-hoc commands, running playbooks safely, inventory, vault and debugging.

20 commands

AWS CLI

Profiles and identity, S3, EC2, CloudWatch logs, SSM sessions and ECR login.

17 commands

Terraform

Everyday plan/apply, workspaces, working with state, imports and targeted runs.

21 commands

Linux & shell

Archives: tar, gzip, zip

Creating and extracting tar.gz and zip, viewing contents, streaming over SSH.

16 commands

grep, sed, awk and friends

Searching text, replacing in files, extracting columns, sorting and counting.

23 commands

Linux: files and permissions

Navigating, copying and finding files, disk usage, permissions and ownership.

24 commands

Linux: processes and resources

Finding and killing processes, CPU and memory, open ports and files, background jobs.

22 commands

systemd (systemctl, journalctl)

Managing services, reading logs with journalctl, writing your own unit and timers.

19 commands

tmux

Sessions that survive disconnects, windows, panes and the default key bindings.

19 commands

Network & web servers

curl

HTTP requests from the terminal: headers, JSON, auth, uploads, timings and debugging.

22 commands

Network diagnostics

IP addresses and routes, DNS lookups, reachability, open ports and traffic capture.

21 commands

Nginx

Checking and reloading config, logs, reverse proxy, HTTPS with Let's Encrypt.

15 commands

OpenSSL and certificates

Inspecting remote and local certificates, expiry dates, keys and CSRs, format conversion.

16 commands

SSH, scp and rsync

Connecting, keys, ~/.ssh/config, port forwarding, jump hosts and copying files.

22 commands

Developer tools

Git

Branches, commits, undoing changes, rebase, stash and searching history.

21 commands

Homebrew

Installing and updating packages on macOS, services, casks, Brewfile and cleanup.

16 commands

Querying and transforming JSON in the terminal: fields, arrays, filters, output formats.

17 commands

npm, pnpm, yarn

Installing dependencies, scripts, outdated and vulnerable packages, publishing, nvm.

23 commands

Python: pip, venv, uv

Virtual environments, installing packages, requirements, uv, handy one-liners.

20 commands