Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”
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Linux man Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 2 A very useful aspect of the Linux command line is that the documentation for almost all command line tools is easily accessible. These documents are known as man pages, and you can easily access them through the command line using the man command.
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Linux nl Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 3 Linux offers a lot of text formatting command line tools, with each of them having a different purpose. One such utility is nl, which lets you number lines in files. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux nice and renice Command Tutorial (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 6 The power of the Linux command line can be gauged from the fact that you can even easily tweak the scheduling priority of processes using command line tools. Yes, that's possible, and in this tutorial we will discuss how to do that using nice and renice utilities.
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Linux lshw Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 0 The beauty of the Linux command line lies in the fact that you can do almost anything using the command line tools. Even if it involves fetching information on the system's hardware components. If that's what you intend to do, and are looking for a command line way to this, you'll be happy to know you can use the lshw command for it.
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Linux who Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 1 Sometimes, while working on the command line, you might want to know more about logged in users. There exists a command line utility who which you can use to access this kind of information. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of who using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux adduser/addgroup Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 3 As a Linux system administrator, one of the basic tasks that you'll have to perform is to create accounts for new users and manage user groups. Of course, there are command line utilities that let you do this, and this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of two such commands: adduser and addgroup.
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Linux stat Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 0 Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you need to know more about a file. For example, you may want information like file's size, inode number, access permissions, time of last access or modification, and more. You'll be glad to know that there exists a command line utility stat that provides all this information in one go.
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Linux rmdir Command for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 0 So we've already discussed the rm command that's primarily used for deleting files and directories from the Linux command line. However, there's another, related command line utility that is specifically aimed at removing directories. The tool in question is rmdir, and in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of it using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux seq Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 3 Sometimes, you come across a command line tool that offers limited functionality on its own, but when used with other tools, you realize its actual potential. Once such tool is seq, which prints a sequence of numbers.
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Linux kill Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
Comments: 0 Sometimes, while working on a Linux machine, you'll see that an application or a command line process gets stuck (becomes unresponsive). Then in those cases, terminating it is the only way out. Linux command line offers a utility that you can use in these scenarios. It's called kill.
