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Linux dirname command explained for beginners (4 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jul 20, 2017 Are you a new Linux user? Does your work involve shell scripting? If your answer to both these questions is yes, the tool we'll be discussing here will likely interest you. The name of the tool is dirname, and it's mostly used in situations where-in you need to strip the last component from an absolute file-name.
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Linux df Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jul 18, 2017 Sometimes, you might want to know how much space is consumed (and how much is free) on a particular file system on your Linux machine. There a specific command - dubbed df - that does this for you. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command, as well as some of the major features it offers.
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Linux dir command for beginners (10 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jul 12, 2017 At any point in time while working on the command line, you are always inside a directory. There may be times when you'd want to list information about all files and subdirectories within a directory. This is where the dir command helps. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command as well as the features it provides.
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Linux dd command explained for beginners (8 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jul 10, 2017 Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you may need to perform a copy operation in way that the data/text gets formatted before it's written at the destination. A simple example could be to copy text from a file and write the case-changed version (lower to upper, or upper to lower) to the destination file.
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Linux Csplit Command Explained for Beginners (6 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jul 06, 2017 While working on the command line in Linux, you may find yourself in situations where-in you need to split a file into multiple parts. If you are already looking for a way to do this, or simply want to know how this can be done, you'll be glad to know there exists a tool - dubbed csplit - that's built for this purpose.
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Linux Date Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jul 03, 2017 While working on the Linux command line, you might find yourself in situations where-in you need to display (or even change) the current system time. Not only that, if you work in a team with members in different timezones, you may want to keep yourself updated with time-related information for zones in which other members are sitting. If you're looking for a tool that lets you do all this (and much more), you will be glad to know there exists a command - dubbed date - that does all this.
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Linux cksum command explained for beginners (with examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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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 •
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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 Uniq Command Tutorial for Beginners (10 examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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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 •
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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.
