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A printable, three-page Linux command line cheat sheet for beginners. It covers 112 commands and shortcuts for working with files, searching with grep, pipes and redirection, permissions, processes and SSH. Rows are grouped by what the student wants to do (for example "Search a whole directory") rather than alphabetically, and commands that cannot be undone are marked in red.

It is available as a PDF (A4 landscape), PNG images and a web page, in English and Japanese. It is free with no sign-up and licensed CC BY 4.0, so instructors can hand it out in class or adapt it with attribution.

Each command on the sheet links to the lesson that teaches it, where students can practice it in a simulated terminal in the browser.

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