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 uptime Command Explained for Beginners with Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Updated: Jul 15, 2019If you are a Linux newbie, and have interest in system administration, or you want to become a power user, then you need to have a solid knowledge of the command line. In this article, we will discuss the basics of the uptime command using some easy to understand examples.
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8 Practical Examples of Linux Xargs Command for Beginners
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 7 • Updated: Jul 05, 2019The Linux xargs command may not be a hugely popular command line tool, but this doesn't take away the fact that it's extremely useful, especially when combined with other commands like find and grep. If you are new to xargs, and want to understand its usage, you'll be glad to know that's exactly what we'll be doing here.
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Linux ss Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 27, 2019When it comes to accessing socket related information through the command line in Linux, the first tool that comes to mind is netstat. However, there's another utility that can do this work for you. It's called ss.
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Linux C programming tutorial Part 28 - Typedefs
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 09, 2019In this tutorial - which is part of the ongoing C programming tutorial series - we will discuss the concept of typedef. As the name suggests (think of typedef as type+def), typedef is a C provided facility to define new names for existing data types.
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Linux C Programming tutorial part 27 - Array of structures
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 06, 2019In this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have been discussing lately about structures. Now, expanding further on the concept of structures, we'll discuss how to create an array of structures using easy to understand examples.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 26 - Structures and Functions
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: May 03, 2019In one of our previous command line tutorials, we touched upon the concept of Structures. Using easy to understand examples, we discussed basic stuff like what are structures and why are they required. Expanding upon that, in this tutorial, we will discuss how structures and functions can be used together.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 25 - Function pointers
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 2 • Published: Apr 29, 2019Just like we have pointers to variables, there can also be pointers to functions. Following is an example of a function pointer declaration.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 24 - Multi dimensional arrays
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Apr 26, 2019If you're following this ongoing C programming tutorial series, you'd be aware of the concept of arrays. To quickly refresh, arrays are used to store multiple values of the same type in continuous storage.
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Linux C Programming Tutorial Part 23 - Structures
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 2 • Published: Apr 23, 2019So far in this ongoing C programming tutorial series, we have discussed several aspects, ranging from variables to functions to even pointers. However, that's still like scratching the surface, as there are many other important concepts in the C programming language. Today, in this tutorial, we will discuss one such concept - the concept of structures.
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Linux C Programming tutorial part 22 - Accessing command line arguments within C program
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Apr 15, 2019In the previous tutorial, we discussed multiple concepts related to pointers in C programming language. One of the concepts we discussed was an array of pointers.
