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 shuf Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Nov 13, 2018If you ever played the game of cards, you'd likely be aware of the term shuffling. A bit hard to imagine, there's a Linux command line tool that exactly does that with lines in files. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of the 'shuf' command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux zmore Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Nov 08, 2018Sometimes, you may want to view the contents of a compressed file without uncompressing it first. Well, you'll be glad to know Linux offers a command line utility that lets you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of the zmore command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux znew Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Nov 06, 2018Did you know Linux offers a way to recompress .Z files to .gz files? Yes, the znew command lets you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command line utility using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux zdump Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Nov 02, 2018With team members working from different countries nowadays, it sometimes becomes important to be aware of the timezone information for different locations. In general also, there may be situations wherein you may want to quickly see timezone for a particular location. You'll be glad to know there's a command line utility - dubbed zdump - that lets you do this.
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Linux xz Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 31, 2018There are several ways to compress and decompress files in Linux. One of them is the xz command. We will discuss the basics of this command line tool in this tutorial.
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Linux whatis Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 26, 2018Man pages are one of the most useful resources when it comes to understanding command line utilities. A man page, however, contains a lot of details about the command. IIf you are looking for a short help text, the command whatis becomes handy.
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Linux tload Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Oct 25, 2018While there are a lot of UI-based tools in Linux that you can use to see a graphical representation of system load, the number of command line tools that do the same work is pretty less. One such utility is tload, which will be discussing in this tutorial.
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Linux tr Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Oct 19, 2018Depending on the kind of work you do on the command line in Linux, you may want a utility that can act as a Swiss army knife for quick text editing. Gladly, there exists a tool dubbed tr, which qualifies for this role.
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Linux tcpdump Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Oct 17, 2018Everytime you open a webpage on your computer, data packets are sent and received on your network interface. Sometimes, analyzing these packets becomes important for many reasons. Thankfully, Linux offers a command line utility that dumps information related to these data packets in output.
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Linux taskset Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 12, 2018In this tutorial, we will discuss a utility - dubbed taskset - that lets you achieve processor affinity. Ever heard of the term processor affinity? It's a feature that allows you to bind or unbind processes to a particular central processing unit, or a range of CPUs.
