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Linux Shell Essentials

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I recently made a quick draft of useful Linux bash commands for a group getting introduced to capture the flag events.  This is what I consider the basics, and should be enough to get through most easy to medium level puzzles. Good luck and happy hacking. (At Some point I'll link a PDF, or add some links here) Useful Linux Commands! You may find this reference document useful: Document  (I've copied the contents below as well) Table of Contents: Intro Quick Command Descriptions Command Examples & Syntax Intro: This is a mixture of the shell (command line tool) and some common linux system programs. To use these commands you can either run Linux on your computer or use a virtual machine with Linux installed on it. The shell that we are using is called Bash (Bourne again SHell) For Windows: 1.       Cygwin (A bash shell for windows I highly recommend) 2.       WSL (Windows subsystem for linux) ...