Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”
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Linux dpkg Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: debian, linux, shell, ubuntu • Comments: 3If you are on a Debian or Debian-based system (like Ubuntu), there are high chances you might have encountered .deb packages. These are Debian packages, and Linux command line offers built-in commands/tools to deal with this kind of packages. One such tool is dpkg, which we will discuss here in this tutorial.
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Linux ifconfig Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 1 Network management work includes a lot of stuff, and precisely for this reason, there are several Linux command line utilities that help you with different kind of network-related tasks. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such utility dubbed ifconfig.
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Linux netstat Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 3 If you are new to Linux command line, and are interested in learning networking stuff, there are many command line utilities that you should be aware of. One such tool is netstat. In this article, we will discuss this command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux unexpand Command Explained for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 Working on the Linux command line requires to learn how to quickly perform some repetitive tasks. One such task that you may find yourself involved in sooner or later is converting blanks to tabs or vice-versa. In this tutorial, we will discuss a command line utility - dubbed unexpand - that'll be of great help in such situations.
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Linux ping Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 Regardless of the type of Linux user you are (beginner or pro), there are certain tools that you must be aware of. One such utility is Ping. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this tool using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux Groups Command for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 In Linux, there's a concept of users (those who use the system), and then there's the concept of groups, which is basically a logical mechanism to manage a collection of users. To give you a basic idea, groups make it easy to manage users with, say, same security and access privileges.
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Linux passwd Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 As a Linux command line user, you should be aware of utilities that help you with user-account management. Once such tool is passwd, which lets you change your account password. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux sleep Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to run a couple of commands one after the other, but with a certain amount of delay between them. It's here, in situations like these, the sleep command may prove to be really helpful.
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Linux strings Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 3 Looking inside a binary/executable file to grab human-readable strings isn't the kind of work that everybody does, but what if you are asked to do this? Opening the file in an editor, and manually looking for stuff isn't an elegant solution. So, what to do? Yes, you guessed it right - there exists a command line utility that does this for you.
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Linux sum Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Comments: 0 As you start spending more and more time working on the Linux command line, you tend to learn utilities that aren't very frequently used. Once such tool is sum, which only offers two features: display checksum and block count for input files. In this short tutorial, we will quickly discuss the basics of sum using some easy to understand examples.
