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Linux aspell Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 30, 2018 A spell checker is an important tool if your work involves writing or editing text files or documents. While most GUI based editors come with spell checking feature inbuilt, the same cannot be said for command line editors. However, there are separate command line tools that can help you with spell check.
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Linux curl Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 26, 2018 While Web browsers are the primary medium through which users download stuff from the Internet, there are some Linux commands that also let you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such command - curl - that among other things lets you download stuff from the Web.
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Linux zcat Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 24, 2018 While compression is helpful in general as it allows you to save space on your system, command line users need to uncompress the file for several small tasks, like viewing what all the file contains. However, there exists a command line utility - dubbed zcat - that lets you take a peek inside compressed files without any additional effort.
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Linux chattr Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 18, 2018 Many a time, a Linux machine is used by different users. So there are chances that these users access a common set of files. This opens up door to problems like accidental deletion or editing of important files, something which you - as an administrator - would definitely not want to happen. Thankfully, there exists a command - dubbed chattr - that's developed to help you in specifically these kinds of scenarios.
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Linux history Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 16, 2018 If your work involves running tools and scripts on the Linux command line, I am sure there are a lot of commands you would be running each day. Those new to the command line should know there exists a tool - dubbed history - that gives you a list of commands you've executed earlier.
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Linux apropos Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 12, 2018 In Linux, if you ever need help regarding a command, all you need to do is to open its man page. But what if a situation arises wherein the requirement is to quickly search the names and descriptions of all available man pages? Well, Linux has got your covered, as there exists a command dubbed apropos that does exactly this for you.
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Linux top Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 10, 2018 While working on the Linux command line, there may be times when you'd want to check process related details, like which process is consuming CPU or memory the most? Well, there exists a command - dubbed top - that lets you do this easily. In this tutorial, we will discuss this tool using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux basename Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 04, 2018 Sometimes, while working on the command line (especially when dealing with shell scripts), you might be interested in only the filename, but what's available to you is the complete path of the file. So, the requirement is to strip the directory component of the path. You'll be glad to know there exists a command - basename - that does this job.
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Linux dmesg Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 03, 2018 There exists a command - dubbed dmesg - that you can use if you want to access messages printed by kernel. In this tutorial, we will understand how the dmesg tool works using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux dpkg Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: debian, linux, shell, ubuntu •
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Published: Jun 28, 2018 If 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.
