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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C Programming Tutorial Part 5 - Character variables
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, linux, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Feb 19, 2019In the previous two tutorials, we discussed the basics of variables including how they occupy memory. But we mainly focused on integers and floats. In this tutorial, we will discuss about characters (or char type variables).
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C Programming Tutorial 4 - Variables and Memory
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, linux, programming • Comments: 1 • Published: Feb 15, 2019In this tutorial series so far, we have discussed how to create and run a basic C program, what are preprocessors, as well as basics of variables. Now let's dig a bit deep into variables and discuss the memory aspect.
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C Programming Tutorial Part 3 - Variables basics
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, linux, programming • Comments: 2 • Published: Feb 14, 2019In this tutorial, we will show you the basics of using variables in C programming.
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Linux Nano Editor Explained for Beginners (10 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux • Comments: 0 • Updated: Feb 06, 2019In this tutorial, we will discuss the basic usage of the Nano editor, as well as some of the features it provides.
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Linux zforce Command Tutorial with Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Jan 09, 2019The gzip command is a popular tool used for compressing/decompressing files in Linux. We've already covered the basics of this tool here. This utility produces .gz files in output. But sometimes - like while transferring files - the extension may get chopped off. You'll be glad to know there exists a tool that you can use to force the .gz extension back to these compressed files.
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Linux time Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Dec 20, 2018Sometimes, when you're executing a program, you might want to know its system resource usage. Like how much time the process spent in kernel mode and user mode, and other info. Thankfully, there exists a tool - dubbed time - that's specifically built for this purpose.
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C Programming Tutorial Part 2 - Preprocessors
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Dec 13, 2018In the first part of our ongoing C programming tutorial series, we briefly touched on the preprocessing stage. In this tutorial, we will discuss it in a little more detail so that you have a basic idea about it before learning other C programming aspects.
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Linux type Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Dec 11, 2018On the Linux command line, you'll come across several types of utilities. Some are an alias, while others are built-in tools and even functions. So, how do you check these types? Well, there exists a command 'type' that offers you this information.
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C Programming Language - Introduction
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: c/c++, linux, programming • Comments: 0 • Published: Dec 10, 2018This tutorial is the first part of a C programming language course on Linux. C is a procedural programming language that was designed by American computer scientist Dennis Ritchie. Please note that we'll be using Linux for all our examples and explanation. Specifically, we'll be using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
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Linux tree Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Dec 05, 2018It won't be wrong to say the ls command is the gold standard when it comes to listing directory contents on the Linux command line. However, there do exist some alternatives that have their own strong points when compared to ls. Once such tool is tree, basics of which we'll be discussing here in this tutorial.
