Linux Tutorials
Sometimes, you may want to view the contents of a compressed file without uncompressing it first. Well, you’ll be glad to know Linux offers a command line utility that lets you do this. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of the zmore command using some easy to understand examples.
Man pages in Linux is the go to spot for first-level support when it comes to command line utilities. As most of you would know, you just write ‘man [command-name]’ and the corresponding man page pops up. But do you know the path where these man pages are searched for?
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.
Often a Linux computer is used by different users. So there is a possibility that these users access a common group of files. This opens the door to problems like accidental deletion or editing of important files, which you as an administrator definitely don’t want. Fortunately, there is a command called chattr that is designed for just such cases.
Here at HowtoForge, we have already discussed multiple command line utilities that are focused on finding file differences. But there are several more such tools, and in this tutorial, we will discuss on such command dubbed sdiff using some easy to understand examples.
Looking for a command line utility to sort content in text files? Look no further than Sort, a tool specifically built for this purpose. In this tutorial, we will discuss this command using some easy to understand examples.
If you are a Linux user who is also into system level software development, you may find yourself in situations where-in you need information related to symbols in an object file. You’ll be glad to know there exists a command line utility – dubbed nm – that you can use in these situations.
You might already know about the grep command in Linux, which searches for a pattern, and then prints the matching text in output. What if the requirement is to apply this kind of processing to fetch select information about processes currently running in the system?
Man 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.
In Linux, if you need to kill a process (for whatever reason) through the command line, you can use the kill command, which requires you to pass as input the ID of the process you’re trying to terminate. But did you know that there also exists a way to kill processes without specifying their PIDs?