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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Command line aliases in the Linux Shell
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 5 In this fourth and the final installment, we will discuss the concept of aliases as well how you can use them to make your command line navigation easier and smoother.
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Linux Chgrp Command for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0Here at HowtoForge, we recently discussed the chown command which lets users change the owner as well as group of file (or a directory) in Linux. But did you know there exists a dedicated command line utility that you can use when it comes to changing group-related information? The tool in question is chgrp, and in this tutorial, we will be discussing this tool using easy to understand examples.
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Linux command line navigation tips/tricks 3 - the CDPATH environment variable
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 1 Continuing with our discussion on the command line navigation aspects, in this tutorial, we'll discuss the CDPATH environment variable through easy to understand examples. We'll also discuss some advance details related to this variable.
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Linux pstree Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2Since every process (except the very first one) in a Linux system has a parent, it sometimes makes things easier to understand if all processes are displayed in a tree structure. You'll be glad to know there exists a command line utility - dubbed pstree - that displays a tree of processes.
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Linux Gunzip Command Explained with Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2We have already discussed the gzip command in Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress or expand files. To uncompress, the command offers a command line option -d. However, there's an entirely different tool that you can use for uncompressing or expanding archives created by gzip. The tool in question is gunzip. In this article, we will discuss the gunzip command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux pmap Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0Linux command line offers a lot of tools that help you know more about processes that are currently active in your system. One such utility is pmap, which reports the process memory map. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of pmap using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux mkfifo Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 4If you're even a moderate Linux command line user, you must be aware of pipes, a fundamental command line feature that allows processes to communicate. Then there's a concept of named pipes (yeah, pipes with names, so that you can do more with pipes). The mkfifo command lets you create such named pipes.
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Linux test Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to test certain things like integer values, or whether or not a file is of certain type? You'll be glad to know there's a built-in command line utility test that lets you do most of these comparisons and tests.
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8 Practical Examples of Linux Xargs Command for Beginners
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 9The 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 killall Command for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2We've already discussed the kill command that you can use in case you want to terminate processes in Linux. However, there exists another command line utility that you can use for the same purpose: killall.
