In this article, we will discuss another popular command for the Linux/Unix platform. du stands for “Disk Usage”. It is a standard command used to estimate space usage (meaning, in the terminal we can find the exact size each directory and file takes up). There are multiple ways we can generate various types of output […]
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This brief tutorial shows how to find and remove all packages installed on a certain date and time in Linux.
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plocate is a newer, much faster locate tool for findning files on the command-line. It’s a drop-in replacement for mlocate in nearly all aspects, including reusing the mlocate database, and it’s fast on SSDs and HDDs alike.
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jq is a Linux/Unix or macOS/*BSD CLI utility that efficiently extracts data from JSON documents. Now we have an excellent htmlq utility written in Rust. It’s like jq but for HTML documents. Here’s how to get started.
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The echo command is one of the most basic and important commands in scripting/programming! This command displays or prints arguments at the terminal. The command is included in all distributions (operating systems) as either the shell or bash. Usually, developers or programmers use echo commands in both debugging and building of products such as websites, […]
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System Administration involves many activities one of which is monitoring and checking for how long your Linux system has been running. It is always a good idea to keep track of system uptime in order to optimize the use of system resources. Here̵…
Everyday we run so many commands in our Linux system. This brief guide explains how to find your most frequently used commands on Linux operating systems.
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The find command in Linux/Unix is known to be one of the most important and frequently used commands for searching files and directories. It supports different arguments and options for finding files and directories. Even if you can find files and folders in Linux via GUI it will be more friendly and easier to use, […]
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Linux comes with an inbuilt utility ps (processes status) to check the information on the running process. The process is nothing but a program to execute a specific task. The ps command in Linux is used to monitor all the currently running activities along with USER, PID, %CPU, %MEM, VSZ, RSS, TTY, STAT, START, TIME, […]
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traceroute is a command line utility that prints the route (or hops) that a packet takes to reach another host. It is used for network diagnostics. In this article, we will discuss everything you want to know about the Linux traceroute command and how …
The find command in Linux/Unix is known to be one of the most important and frequently used commands for searching files and directories. It supports different arguments and options for finding files and directories. Even if you can find files and folders in Linux via GUI it will be more friendly and easier to use, […]
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YUM stands for Yellowdog Updater Modified, which is an RPM (RedHat Package Manager) based package management tool for Linux Systems. Yum was introduced in RHEL version 5.10 onward and its deprecated up2date command. The yum command helps all Users and System Administrators to search for information about packages and then install, update, and remove all rpm-related […]
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The curl command is one of the most powerful and useful tools that are used by web developers as well as by PHP programmers and System Administrators. Most commonly, it is used to transfer data between remote and local systems. Through this command, we can access or download content from a website without a browser. […]
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Users are generally slow to change passwords. Here’s how to nudge them into compliance with chage. And no, that’s not a typo.
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As the Linux operating system grows on you, you start being labeled the nerd you always wanted to be. Your behavior in this operating system environment changes completely. You develop a superiority complex that transforms you from a GUI-oriented user to a terminal-based user. You want to achieve a lot of things without switching between […]
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In this guide, we’ll show you how to manage packages using the zypper command in the SUSE and openSUSE systems.
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It’s really a very tough job for every System or Network Administrator to monitor and debug Linux system performance problems every day. For this reason, we’ve compiled the list of Top 20 frequently used command line monitoring tools that might be usef…
While there are plenty of ways to send email, for anyone who lives on the command line, sending email from the CLI is a big timesaver. Learn how to send email from the Linux terminal using various tools , like mail, sendmail, telnet and mutt, and add a…
We’re all familiar with Linux’s command-line interface (CLI), which allows you to execute nearly any job you can think of by just typing commands into it. This guide shows you how to get a list of all commands, functions, and aliases that t…
In the following guide, you will learn how to install Shlink on Ubuntu 20.04 with a complete Nginx example configuration. Shlink is a free, open-source, self-hosted URL shortener written in PHP that provides both a REST and a CLI interface to interact …