List all available partitions to mount lsblk Mount drive the easy way udisksctl mount -b /dev/sd[letter][number] Start OpenVPN sudo openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/elitebook.ovpn Music CD burner k3b Mass file renamer thunar -B File copier with progress bar: rsync -vau Check ip/mac address: ifconfig -a List all installed packages apt-list-installedbyme (see ~/.bash_aliases) pdftk examples: pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output newfile.pdf pdftk examples: pdftk A=one.pdf B=two.pdf cat A1-7 B1-5 A8 output combined.pdf Recover lost or deleted files: photorec Try to fix a jacked up drive: testdisk Markdown link: [link text](htttp://www.url-website.con) Tar examples: Gzip (standard, fastest) tar -czvf archive.tar.gz stuff Bzip2 (better compression, slower) tar -cjvf archive.tar.bz2 stuff Bzip2 (better compression, slower) tar -cJvf archive.tar.xz stuff extract files tar -xvf archive.tar. zip zip [-b path] archive.zip stuff unzip Bash "for" syntax: for f in foo*.pattern; do mv "$f" "${f/%.pattern/.replace}"; done Performance monitor, show processes htop PerfMon that shows hard disk usage iotop Show all kinds of helpful system info inxi -Fxzd Run script.sh at startup add script.desktop to /home/USERNAME/.config/autostart/ cat text file to clipboard cat new_tutoring_student.txt | xsel -b pv syntax pv < inputfile > outputfile in case of an I/O error with dd or pv sudo ddrescue inputfile outputfile in case printing suddenly has issues, try re-enabling cups-browsed maybe do sudo systemctl enable cups-browsed.service Edit this file at ~/iforgot.txt