Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”
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8 Practical Examples of Linux Xargs Command for Beginners
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Updated: Jun 14, 2018 The Linux xargs command may not be a hugely popular command line tool, but this doesn't take away the fact that it's extremely useful, especially when combined with other commands like find and grep. If you are new to xargs, and want to understand its usage, you'll be glad to know that's exactly what we'll be doing here.
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Linux sha1sum Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Jun 13, 2018 Linux command line offers several tools for checking and verifying a file's integrity. One such tool is sha1sum, which we will be discussing here in this tutorial using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux ping Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jun 12, 2018 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 •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Updated: Jun 08, 2018 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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Published: Jun 08, 2018 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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Published: Jun 06, 2018 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 pstree Command Tutorial for Beginners (8 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
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Published: Jun 01, 2018 Since every process (except the very first one) in a Linux system has a parent, it sometimes makes things easier to understand if all processes are displayed in a tree structure. You'll be glad to know there exists a command line utility - dubbed pstree - that displays a tree of processes.
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Linux strings Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: May 29, 2018 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 •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: May 24, 2018 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.
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Setup New User and SSH Key Auth. using Ansible on Ubuntu 18.04
Author: Muhammad Arul •
Tags: linux, server, shell, ubuntu •
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Published: May 23, 2018 Ansible is a simple automation tool that automates software applications deployment, cloud provisioning, and configuration management. It's a server orchestration tool that helps you to manage and control a large number of server nodes from single places called 'Control Machines'. In this tutorial, we will learn how to deploy a new user and enable the SSH Key-Based authentication using the automation tool Ansible.
