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Use ssh to execute a command on a remote system:
ssh user@user@server.com <command>

Create a log of an ssh session:
ssh user@server.com | tee -a ~/server.com.ssh.log

Copy a file from your local directory to a directory on a remote system:
scp [filename] [user]@[server.com]:/remote/directory

Remove the ABCD– prefix from a filename:
$ s='ABCD --11212239.pdf'
$ mv "$s" "${s#ABCD--}"

Remove the prefix from all files in current directory recursively:
while IFS= read -r -d '' filename; do
mv "$filename" "${filename#ABCD--}"
done < <(find . -type f -name 'ABCD--*' -print0)

Remove the .pdf suffix from a filename:
$ s='ABCD --11212239.pdf'
$ mv "$s" "${s%.pdf}"

Remove the suffix from all the files in the current directory recursively:
while IFS= read -r -d '' filename; do
mv "$filename" "${filename%.pdf}"
done < <(find . -type f -name '*.pdf' -print0)

#Check size of Volume Group
df -h -T | grep vg
#Display volume group info. Check for free space
sudo vgdisplay
#Display logical volume info
sudo lvdisplay
#Test run
sudo lvextend -t -v -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
#Actual run
sudo lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
#Resize logical volume
sudo resize2fs /dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv
#Verify
df -h -T | grep vg

To boot into single user mode from the Grub menu:

In Ubuntu, the Grub Menu should appear if you press and hold Shift while Grub is loading, if you boot using BIOS. If your Ubuntu system boots using UEFI, press Esc instead. You might have to press the key multiple times.

When you get to the Grub Menu, edit the line that starts with linux by adding any one of these to the end of the line:
s (lower case s)
S (upper case s)
1 (number 1)
If the system is using systemd, add one of these to the end of the line that starts with linux and use the key sequence that is listed at the bottom to boot the new configuration (usually ,<ctrl>X or F10):
systemd.target=rescue.target
rescue

Since single user mode gives you root access to the system, it is a good idea to require the root password when booting into it. To do this,

If the system is using systemd, edit the ExecStart line in both /lib/systemd/system/rescue.service and /lib/systemd/system/emergency.service by changing sushell to sulogin. After saving these changes, when you edit the Grub menu and boot into single user mode, you will be required to enter the root password for access.

1. Log into system: ssh <system>
   
2. Check for full filesystem: df -h
   
3. Detemine the largest files on the filesystem:
   du -ah / --exclude="/proc" | sort -h -r | head -n 5 2>/dev/null
   
4. Check the output for something that can be deleted.
   
5. If the du command doesn’t show anything, consider whether something that was running might have created a temporary file that exceeded the remaining space on the filesystem.
   
6. If you find temporary files created at run-time that exceed the remaining drive space, you have 3 choices:
   A. add more drive space
   B. spread out the run times of jobs so that concurrent jobs don’t exceed the remaining drive space
   C. consider adding compression to the temporary files before writing them to the filesystem
   
7. Check the inode usage with this: df -i
   
8. If you find the issue is inode usage, you have 2 choices:
   A. delete file s of directories that use a large number of inodes:
   1. identify which files and directories are using the most inodes by running this:
for i in /*; do echo $i; find $i | wc -l; done
   2. examine the output for toplevel directories that are using a lot of inodes
   3. re-run the command in step 1. replacing /* with the toplevel directory to check
   4. Once you determine where the issue is: delete expendable files or directories
   B. increase the number of available inodes:
   1. unmount the full filesystem: umount <filesystem mountpoint>
   2. update the number of inodes: mkfs.ext3 /dev/<device> -N <desired num of inodes>
   3. re-mount the filesystem: mount -a
   

Calculate MySQL Memory Usage – Quick Stored Procedure

To see what systems on the 192.168.11.0 network are listening on port 22:
nmap -sV -p 22 192.168.11.0/24

To do an nmap ping scan on 192.168.11.0 network:
nmap -sp 192.168.11.0/24

To scan the top five ports on 192.168.11.7:
nmap --top-ports 5 192.168.11.7

Use the Linux Standard Base command as follows:
lsb__release -a

The du command is very useful when you are looking at disk space usage. Here are some of the most commonly used parameters:

-h human-readable Displays sizes in human-readable format, using units such as KB, MB, GB, etc
-a, –all Lists all files with their sizes (combine with h to get the best result)
-d, –max-depth=N
–time Lists all files with their sizes and the timestamp of its last modification
-X, –exclude=<pattern> Lists all files except those that match <pattern>

To find the disk usage of all files in the directory except the tarred files:

du -ah --exclude=".tgz" --exclude=".tar.gz"

To find the 10 largest files in the current directory ordered by file size:
(This gets both directories and files by size)
for i in G M K; do du -ah | grep [0-9]$i | sort -nr -k 1; done | head -n 11
or
du -ah . | sort -n -r | head -n 10

(This gets only files ordered by size)
du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10
or
du -ah --max-depth=1 | sort -h

#Run iostat to get the average cpu usage every 10 seconds for 10 times:
iostat -x 10 10 >> /home/<user>/iostat.out.$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")

#Run dstat to get cpu stats for cpus 1, 3 and the total:
dstat -C 0,3,total