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• Linux expr command tutorial for beginners (with examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 22, 2017

  Sometimes, while working on the command line (especially when dealing with a shell script), you may find yourself in a situation where you have to perform actions like searching for a substring in a string, finding its index, as well as other things like performing comparisons and arithmetic operations. For those who aren't in the know, there exists a command line utility - dubbed expr - that lets you do all this.

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• Install Wordpress on LAMP in Debian 9

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: debian, mysql, php, server, web server • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 21, 2017

  This tutorial will show you on how to install and configure the latest version WordPress on top of a LAMP stack in Debian 9 - Stretch. Wordpress, without a doubt, is one of the most popular open-source Content Management System or CMS used in these days for internet publishing, which powers more than 60 million websites worldwide, whether small blogging sites or notable huge name brands.

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• How to Manage CentOS 7 Server with Webmin

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: centos, control panels, linux, server • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 18, 2017

  In this tutorial, we will install Webmin on CentOS 7.2. We will also learn to administrator Apache web server, firewalld, and Webmin configuration. Webmin is free and open source web based system administration tool for Unix systems. It provides a rich and powerful web based user interface to administrate the server along with all the popular applications like Apache, BIND, Squid Proxy etc.

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• How to Install Sensu Monitoring on Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, monitoring, server, ubuntu • Comments: 2 • Published: Aug 17, 2017

  Sensu is a free and open source tool for composing the monitoring system you need. In this tutorial, we will go through step by step installation of Redis, RabbitMQ and Sensu on Ubuntu 16.04.

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• Linux expand Command Tutorial For Beginners (with Examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 16, 2017

  While working on the command line in Linux, there may arise a situation where-in the requirement is to replace tabs in a file with spaces. The task isn't difficult if the file is small, but what if the file you're dealing with is huge, or worse, there are hundreds of files in which you have to make this change? Worry not, there exists a command line tool that's specifically built for this work. The tool in question is expand, and in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of expand using some easy to understand examples.

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• How to Install PostgreSQL and pgAdmin on FreeBSD 11

  Author: Liptan Biswas • Tags: freebsd • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 15, 2017

  PostgreSQL or in short Postgres, is an open source Object-Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS). In this tutorial, we will learn how to install PostgreSQL and pgAdmin on FreeBSD 11.

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• How to install and setup Plex Media Server Ubuntu 16.04

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, server, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 7 • Published: Aug 14, 2017

  Plex is a free feature-rich media library platform that provides a way to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and configure Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 16.04.

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• How to Install Nextcloud 12 Server on Debian 9

  Author: Hitesh Jethva • Tags: linux, server, storage, ubuntu • Comments: 5 • Updated: Aug 12, 2017

  NextCloud is a free, open source and an alternative to another open source file hosting solution OwnCloud. NextCloud eliminates your need of using third party cloud hosting software like Dropbox for storing your documents. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install and configure NextCloud on Debian 9.

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• Linux env Command Tutorial For Beginners (5 Examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 11, 2017

  If your work involves doing stuff through the command line in Linux, more likely than not, you'll be using the Bash shell. Did you know there's an environment associated with the processes that are executed through the shell? And, if you want, you can tweak this environment specifically for the task you're doing? Well, in this article we will discuss a command line tool - env - that not only lets you access the shell environment, but also allows you to make changes to it as an when required.

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• How to clone disks with Linux dd command

  Author: Matt Vas • Tags: linux, shell, ubuntu • Comments: 7 • Published: Aug 10, 2017

  In this tutorial we'll refer to a practical example of Linux dd command that can be used by system administrators to migrate or clone a Windows Operating System or a Linux OS from a larger HDD partitioned in MBR or GPT layout style to a smaller SSD.

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