Raspberry Pi Commands

Note to self: Information about Pis I own can be found at https://strivinglife.gitlab.io/book-raspberry-pi/.

Current Uptime

uptime

Restarting

sudo reboot

Shutdown

sudo shutdown -h now

Internet Configuration

ifconfig

# Try to bring a network interface up.
sudo ifup wlan0

Samba

# Restart Samba services.
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart

# Backup copy of Samba configuration.
sudo cp /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.old
# Edit Samba configuration. Restart (see above) for changes to be picked up.
sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.conf

# Check Samba services.
systemctl status smbd

SSH

# Check SSH service status.
systemctl status sshd

# SSH into a server with Raspberry Pi's default user.
# Enter `exit` and press enter to quit the session.
ssh pi@<ip_address>

Terminal

# View past commands.
history

# View process information
top

Drive Information

# List device information.
sudo fdisk -l

# List mounts.
sudo mount -l

# Example: cd into a mounted USB device.
cd /media/usbhdd1

USB/Port Information

# Basic list of each port.
lsusb
# Lists out each port, with Product if there's a connected device.
usb-devices

Display Information

# List information about the connected display.
tvservice -s

Hardware Information

See https://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory#Board_Revision_History for more information.

# Includes Hardware and Revision information.
cat /proc/cpuinfo

OS Information

cat /etc/os-release

RetroPie audio issues

Make sure the correct audio output device is selected in the RetroPie configuration.
sudo nano /boot/config.txt and uncomment #hdmi_drive=2. ctrl+o, enter, ctrl+x, sudo reboot.

Start GUI

startx

General Commands