Articles by Himanshu Arora
About Himanshu Arora
Himanshu Arora has been working on Linux since 2007. He carries professional experience in system level programming, networking protocols, and command line. In addition to HowtoForge, Himanshu's work has also been featured in some of world's other leading publications including Computerworld, IBM DeveloperWorks, and Linux Journal.
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Linux w Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 0 If you are new to Linux system administration, you should be aware of tools that help you in user management. One such utility is w, which shows info about users that are currently logged in to a system, including what they are doing. In this article, we will discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.
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How to install and use 7zip file archiver on Ubuntu Linux
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 10 If you are a Microsoft Windows user, and your work involves sending/receiving large files over a network, there's quite a possibility that you'd have at least heard of (if not used) the 7zip tool. For those who aren't aware, 7zip is an award-winning, open-source file archiver that is claimed to have "a high compression ratio.". In this article, we'll discuss how to install and use p7zip in Linux.
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Linux which and whoami Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 1 There are certain Linux utilities that are aimed at performing a single task and hence offer very few or no command line options. Two such tools are which and whoami. In this tutorial, we will discuss these commands using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux shutdown Command Explained with Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of the Linux shutdown command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux nproc Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 Every process that's executed on a computer system requires CPU to do what it is expected to do. There may be times when your system's CPU is overloaded (due to the number or kind of processes running on the system), and for whatever reason, you want to know the number of available processing units for new processes. Well, there's a tool dubbed nproc that you can use to confirm this information.
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Linux more Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 Sometimes, while working on the command line, you'll see outputs produced by commands in certain cases are so large that they don't fit into the screen area, and hence, you get to see only the last part of the output (as the initial part scrolls past the screen). Thankfully, there are utilities that are specifically designed to help you in such cases, and one of them is more.
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Linux man Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 2 A very useful aspect of the Linux command line is that the documentation for almost all command line tools is easily accessible. These documents are known as man pages, and you can easily access them through the command line using the man command.
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Linux logname Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
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Comments: 0 Linux offers several commands that display in output the current user's login name. One of those is logname. In this tutorial, we will quickly understand the basics of this command line tool using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux nl Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 3 Linux offers a lot of text formatting command line tools, with each of them having a different purpose. One such utility is nl, which lets you number lines in files. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux nice and renice Command Tutorial (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 6 The power of the Linux command line can be gauged from the fact that you can even easily tweak the scheduling priority of processes using command line tools. Yes, that's possible, and in this tutorial we will discuss how to do that using nice and renice utilities.
