The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a
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The post How to Recover Deleted Files in Linux Before They’re Gone first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You deleted a log file mid-session, a running process is still writing to it, and ls shows nothing, but the
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The post watch: The One Linux Command You Keep Forgetting to Use first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’re running df -h every 30 seconds by hand to watch a disk fill up, typing the same command over
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The post SSH Dropped and Killed Your Job? Here’s the Fix first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’ve been running a long rsync job or a Python script on a remote server only to watch it die
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The post How to Prevent Passwords from Saving in Bash History first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Every Linux user eventually runs a command they’d rather not preserve – a curl with a hardcoded password, an export
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The post How to Avoid Retyping Long Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Ctrl+R and fc let you find, recall, and edit any command from your bash history in seconds, and here’s how
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The post 10 Linux Terminal Shortcuts to Stop Retyping Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’ve been retyping the same long commands for years, but sudo !!, !$, ^old^new, and a handful of Bash history
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The post hyperfine: Find Linux Command Execution Time Accurately first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .hyperfine is a command-line benchmarking tool that runs your commands repeatedly, collects timing data across multiple runs, a…
Read MoreThe post How to Find and Fix Failed Services in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Learn how to use systemctl with the –failed flag to instantly spot broken services on your Linux system, without scrolling
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The post mktemp: Create Secure Temporary Files Easily in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .The mktemp command in Linux creates temporary files and directories with unique, unpredictable names, which is the safest way to…
Read MoreThe post sort and uniq: Clean and Count Log File Entries in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this guide, we’ll show you how to use sort and uniq together to deduplicate, count, and summarize log file
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The post How to Find Command Location and Description in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this guide, you’ll learn five practical commands for discovering quick information about any binary command: its purpos…
Read MoreThe post How to Check Exit Status for Command in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .When working on a Linux system, every command you run returns a status code (also called an exit status or
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The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Zip is a command-line utility tool used for compressing files and folders. Compression of files & folders enables faster and
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The post How to Install and Use dig and nslookup Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re working with networks, managing domains, or troubleshooting connectivity issues, two essential tools you’ll …
Read MoreThe post How to Install and Use dig and nslookup Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’re working with networks, managing domains, or troubleshooting connectivity issues, two essential tools you’ll …
Read MoreThe post How to Use sed and awk to Modify Config Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux configuration files are often plain text, which makes them easily editable using command-line tools. Among the most power…
Read MoreThe post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom sec…
Read MoreThe post How Linux Services and Daemons Work (and How to Control Them) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .When starting out with Linux, you may encounter the terms “services” and “daemons” quite frequently, which refer to back…
Read MoreThe post 10 Little-Known Linux Commands You Probably Missed – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .After four highly appreciated and successful articles in our series on Lesser-Known Linux Commands, we’re excited to bring…
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