​ HYPER COMMANDS ​​

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●​find
Used to search to tell you if a word exists in a file or not .
​ kali</> find ~/Desktop -name *.txt #find all file in Desktop that end with .txt
​ kali</> find -name “[Link]” #you should spesific directory first
#if exist 3 directorys and you want just search in 2 :
kali</> find dir1 dire2 -name “text”

#if you not have all the name exacly.

​ kali</> find . -name “.txt” -exec grep -l “some thing” {} .
​ kali</>find . -iname “txt” #find with issensetive key

kali</>find . -type f “name” #this give you -f for regular files and d for directorys
You can also costomize find with size and empty
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●​past
Understanding this command by example:
​ [Link] ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ [Link]
​ A​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 1
B​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 2
C​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ 3
​ kali</> paste [Link] [Link]
A​ 1
B​ 2
C​ 3
kali</> past -d ‘,’ [Link] [Link] #set , like separator (the default is tab)
​ A,1
B,2​ ​ ​ ​ ​ #you can set multiple separators
C,3

●​cut
The cut command used to extract a part of text speciefed by user from the input or
text file is most used to manipulate data.
-​You can extract specific caracters :
kali</> cut -c 1 [Link] # Extrait le premier caractère de chaque lignes
a
​ 1
kali</> cut -c 1-3 [Link] # Extrait les caractères 1 à 3
​ Abc
123
 kali</> cut -c 2,4 [Link] # Extrait les 2ᵉ et 4ᵉ caractères
​ bd
​ 24

-​This extractin spesific columes if separated by tab by default

kali</> cut -f 2,3
col2 ​ col3
​ 123 ​ xyz

-​You can specifiy the separator of colums like space ‘ ’

kali</> cut -d ' ' -f 1 [Link]
hello
linux
kali</> cut -d ' ' -f 2-3 [Link] #specificator separation (space)
world test
bash cut
#When you use the -s option, cut only outputs lines that contain the delimiter. Lines without
the delimiter are ignored.
kali</> cut -f 2,5 -s [Link]
●​grep
Get more about it it also used to extract ip adress from a file…
●​sed
The sed is usd to search for a word and change it in whole the text by another you
enter them.
kali</> sed “s/oldword/newword/g” [Link]
kali</> sed “1s/oldword/newword/” [Link] #this 1 to choose the ligne, (1,3)
kali</> sed “s/oldword/newword/” [Link] #don’t set g for apply changes just in
the fisrt word in each ligne.
kali</> sed -i “s/oldword/newword/g” [Link]
#the i is for save changes permanetly becaus if you does’nt use it the change set just
for your show not in the original file.

#to delet a word from a text file just don’t set anything between the last slachs
kali</> sed -i “s/oldword//g” [Link]
​ #search a line by a word when it find the word delet the whol ligne :
​ kali</> sed -i “/word/d” [Link] #just remove the s and add d instead of g
​ #remove empty lines :
​ kali</> sed -i “/^$/d” [Link]
​ #remove first or 2 lines :
​ kali</> sed -i “1,2d” [Link]
●​head
Show you the top 10 lines.
kali</> head [Link]
kali</> head -n1 [Link] #for specify the number of line to display
●​sort
The sort is use the ASCII to sort text, then the uppercase it went befor lowercasses
then Z < a :
kali</> sort [Link]
kali</> sort -r [Link] #reverse the order
●​uniq
The uniq command is used to output a text file when filtering dublicated lignes :
​ kali</> uniq [Link]
​ kali</> sort [Link] | uniq

●​split
It is a command used to divide a file to multipe other files in function of line number or data size:
-by lines :
kali</> split -l 100 [Link] Ahmed_
Lignes option​​ number of files you want ​ the name of files begane with

-by data size:

kali</> split -d 4k [Link] Ahmed_ #the d for size{Mega, Kilo}

●​join
Merge files or many files :
kali</> join [Link] [Link]

●​expand
Convert tab to space separator :
kali</> echo -e "nom\tprénom" | expand

●​unexpand
Convert space to tab separator :

●​tail
Show you the 10 end line it is the convert of head with option -n to specify lines, and
has a spetial parameter is -f this show the change in the real time
​ kali</> tail -n 12 [Link]
​ kali</> tail -f [Link]

●​nl
Used to show you the number of lines of a text file : (search more).
kali</> nl [Link]
●​awk
awk is used like cut but in the situation if exist many spaces and cant specify the space
like separator can conseder each space like a column:
kali</> awk {print $1} [Link] #the $1 is just to specify the column to display
kali</> ll
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kali kali 0 Mar 19 04:29 [Link]
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kali kali 304 Mar 20 20:32 file1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kali kali 43 Mar 20 22:19 file2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kali kali 0 Mar 19 04:28 file3
​ kali</> ll | awk '{print $1}'​ #$0 is to show all
​ total
-rw-rw-r--
-rw-rw-r--
-rw-rw-r--
-rw-rw-r–-
​ kali</> awk -F “;” ‘{print $1}’ [Link] #the -F is to specify the separator
​ kali</> awk -F “ ” ‘{print $1 $3}’ #you can show more than one column
​ kali</> awk -F “ ” ‘{print $1 “ ” $3 “/”}’ # you can add more things between them
​ kali</> awk -F “ ” ‘{print $1*2”}’ #the variable $ can be multiplied or…
​ kali</> awk -F "/" '{print $2/$3}' /etc/shells #just an important example
​ kali</> awk '{print $NF}' ​ #to show the last column from each ligne​
​ kali</> awk 'NR > 1 {print}' /etc/shells #skip the first ligne
​ kali</> awk '/^root/ {print}' /etc/passwd #^signify the begane of word
​ #this show just the cols who beganes with root
​ kali</>awk '/^[0-9]/ {print}' [Link] #select just the lignes who began with num

​ -more eazy concepts in awk in this link​

●​last
Show you the last logins list
●​wc
Is to count the number of caracter and lignes and words.
kali</> wc [Link]
​ 3 5 89 lignes ​ words caracters
​ kali</> wc -l ​ #the option l is for show just num of linges : -w and -

●​tr
It translate the output to a specific for (most used to make lowercase into uppercase)
​ kali</> echo “hello world” | tr [a-z] [A-Z]
​ ​ HELLO WORLD
​ kali</> echo “hello world” | tr -d [a-z] #delet all lowercase caracte