Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”

• Linux cksum command explained for beginners (with examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Jun 22, 2017

  In Linux, there's a command line tool that you can use to create/verify checksum. It's dubbed cksum. Most vendors offer a checksum (or a checksum-like code) corresponding to the file(s) being downloaded. If the file doesn't behave in an expected way, user's can recompute the file's checksum and compare it with the original checksum provided by the vendor to see if the file is intact or got corrupted.

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• Linux Chgrp Command for Beginners (5 Examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Jun 14, 2017

  Here 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 Commands - Overview and Examples

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Updated: Jun 12, 2017

  The command line is one of the most powerful features of Linux. There exists a sea of Linux command line tools, allowing you to do almost everything you can think of doing on your Linux PC. However, this usually creates a problem: with so many commands available to use, you don't know where and how to start learning them, especially when you are beginner.

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• Linux Uniq Command Tutorial for Beginners (10 examples)

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: May 23, 2017

  The uniq command reports or even deletes repeated lines in a file. In this article, we will discuss uniq through easy to understand examples.

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• Download Files with Wget on the Linux Shell - Explanation and Examples

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Apr 26, 2017

  Are you a Linux newbie? Are you looking for a command line tool that can help you download files from the Web? If your answer to both these questions is yes, then you've come to the right place, as in this tutorial, we will discuss the basic usage of the WGET command line utility.

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• 8 Linux Locate Command Examples for Beginners

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Apr 20, 2017

  While find is no doubt one of the most popular as well as powerful command line utilities for file searching in Linux, it not fast enough for situations where-in you need instantaneous results. If you want to search a file on your system through the command line, and speed is the top most priority, then there's another command that you can use: Locate.

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• 16 Practical Examples of Linux LS command for Beginners

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Apr 18, 2017

  Whenever it's required to take a look at the contents of a directory on the command line in Linux, ls is the command that's used. It lists the contents sorted in alphabetical order. While that's the tool's basic usage, it offers a plethora of features (in the form of command line options) that help you in several circumstances. In this tutorial, we will discuss the usage of some of these command line options through easy to understand examples.

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• 10 Practical Examples of Linux Cal/NCal command for Beginners

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Apr 03, 2017

  If you want to quickly view a calendar on terminal in Linux, then cal is the command line tool that you should be using. By default the command displays the current month in output.

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• How to use grep to search for strings in files on the shell

  Author: srijan • Tags: centos, debian, linux, opensuse, shell, ubuntu • Comments: 8 • Updated: Mar 30, 2017

  The grep command, which means global regular expression print, remains amongst the most versatile commands in a Linux terminal environment. It happens to be an immensely powerful program that lends users the ability to sort input based on complex rules, thus rendering it a fairly popular link across numerous command chains. The grep command is primarily used to search text or search any given file for lines containing a match to the supplied words/strings.

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• How to use markers and perform text selection in Vim

  Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 4 • Updated: Mar 09, 2017

  When using GUI-based text/source code editors, some features are a given, such as selecting text. I mean, most of us won't even consider this a feature anymore. But that's not the case with command line based editors like Vim. Specifically for Vim, when only using keyboard, you'll have to learn certain commands in order to select text the way you want. In this tutorial we will discuss this feature as well as the 'marks' feature of Vim in detail.

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