Linux Tutorials on the topic “shell”
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Linux chage Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 15, 2018Linux command line offers several tools for user management (some of which we've already discussed). One such utility is chage, which lets you tweak password expiry information.
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Linux Commands - Overview and Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Updated: Aug 14, 2018 The command line is one of the most powerful features of Linux. There exists a sea of Linux command line tools, allowing you to do almost everything you can think of doing on your Linux PC. However, this usually creates a problem: with so many commands available to use, you don't know where and how to start learning them, especially when you are beginner.
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How to limit CPU usage with CPULimit on Ubuntu Linux
Author: howtoforge •
Tags: linux, shell, ubuntu •
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Updated: Aug 14, 2018 This tutorial describes how to limit CPU usage in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I will use CPU-limit utility for this purpose. Cpulimit is a tool which limits the CPU usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in CPU time). It is useful to control batch jobs when you don't want them to eat too many CPU cycles. The goal of cpulimit is to prevent a process from running for more than a specified time ratio. It does not change the nice value or other scheduling priority settings, but the real CPU usage.
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Linux bzip2 Command Tutorial for Beginners (6 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 13, 2018File compressions are carried out according to specific algorithms. There are many compression techniques, and one of them is achieved through bzip2. In this tutorial, we will learn the basics of bzip2 using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux chsh Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 1 • Published: Aug 10, 2018The bash shell is one of the most widely used login shells in Linux. But there exist other shells as well, and you can use them for your command line work (until of course there's a specific requirement for your work). In this article, we will discuss a tool - dubbed chsh - that lets you switch to a login shell different from your current shell.
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Linux bzcmp, bzdiff, bzmore, bzless, and bzgrep Commands Explained with Examples
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Aug 09, 2018While the bzip2 command line utility can be used to compress files, there are many other tools that let you perform basic tasks - like comparing such files - without the need to uncompress them. Here, in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of bzcmp, bzdiff, bzmore, bzless, and bzgrep commands using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux Basics: How To Create and Install SSH Keys on the Shell
Author: howtoforge •
Tags: linux, security, shell •
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Updated: Aug 06, 2018 SSH keys offer a highly secure manner of logging into a server with SSH as against mere dependence on a password. This tutorial shows you how to generate an SSH key pair by using the ssh-keygen command and how to configure the SSH Daemon to only allow logins by key.
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Linux look Command Tutorial for Beginners (with Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora •
Tags: linux, shell •
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Published: Aug 02, 2018 Although the Linux find command does a fabulous job for searching on the command line, there may be situations where a dedicated tool may be more convinient. One such case is to find lines in a file that start with a particular word. There exists a command - dubbed look - that does this for you.
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Linux ar Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 31, 2018In Linux, there are several command-line utilities that let you create archives. One such utility is ar. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of this command line tool using some easy to understand examples.
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Linux aspell Command Tutorial for Beginners (5 Examples)
Author: Himanshu Arora • Tags: linux, shell • Comments: 0 • Published: Jul 30, 2018A 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.
