Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”
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Linux xz Command Tutorial for Beginners (7 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 31, 2018There are several ways to compress and decompress files in Linux. One of them is the xz command. We will discuss the basics of this command line tool in this tutorial.
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Linux whatis Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 26, 2018Man pages are one of the most useful resources when it comes to understanding command line utilities. A man page, however, contains a lot of details about the command. IIf you are looking for a short help text, the command whatis becomes handy.
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Linux tload Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Oct 25, 2018While there are a lot of UI-based tools in Linux that you can use to see a graphical representation of system load, the number of command line tools that do the same work is pretty less. One such utility is tload, which will be discussing in this tutorial.
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Linux tcpdump Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 2 • Published: Oct 17, 2018Everytime you open a webpage on your computer, data packets are sent and received on your network interface. Sometimes, analyzing these packets becomes important for many reasons. Thankfully, Linux offers a command line utility that dumps information related to these data packets in output.
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Linux taskset Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 12, 2018In this tutorial, we will discuss a utility - dubbed taskset - that lets you achieve processor affinity. Ever heard of the term processor affinity? It's a feature that allows you to bind or unbind processes to a particular central processing unit, or a range of CPUs.
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Linux vmstat Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Oct 10, 2018If you are looking for a command line utility that you can use to access information about processes, CPU activity, memory, and more, you'll be glad to know that vmstat does this for you.
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Linux vdir Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Oct 08, 2018Listing contents of a directory is one of the most basic tasks that users (both pro and noobs) find themselves involved in. The ls command is hands down the most popular tool used for this purpose. There are some alternatives. For example, there's a utility called vdir, basics of which we'll be discussing here.
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Linux shred Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Oct 01, 2018This tutorial shows how to delete data safely on Linux by using the shred command. All examples in this article have been tested on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine.
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Linux readlink and realpath Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Sep 28, 2018In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of realpath and readlink commands that are similar (if not same) in the sense that they display resolved symbolic links in output.
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Linux printenv Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Sep 27, 2018Environment variables play a major role in Linux. Most programs, whether command line based or GUI based, deal with environment variables in one way or the other. So naturally, there are tools that let you access environment variables from the command line. One such tool is printenv. In this tutorial, we will discuss printenv using some easy to understand examples.
