Linux Tutorials
There exists a command – dubbed dmesg – that you can use if you want to access messages printed by kernel. In this tutorial, we will understand how the dmesg tool works using some easy to understand examples.
If you are on a Debian or Debian-based system (like Ubuntu), there are high chances you might have encountered .deb packages. These are Debian packages, and Linux command line offers built-in commands/tools to deal with this kind of packages. One such tool is dpkg, which we will discuss here in this tutorial.
If you are new to Linux command line, and are interested in learning networking stuff, there are many command line utilities that you should be aware of. One such tool is netstat. In this article, we will discuss this command using some easy to understand examples.
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.
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.
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.
Netdata is an open source monitoring system for Linux servers. It provides real-time performance and health monitoring with beautiful dashboard and analytics. In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor Nginx using Netdata on CentOS 7.
Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to quickly check which all users are currently logged in to the system. Well, there’s a built-in Linux command line utility that lets you do this easily. The tool in question is ‘users’, and in this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of it using some easy to understand examples.
Sometimes, you come across a command line tool that offers limited functionality on its own, but when used with other tools, you realize its actual potential. Once such tool is seq, which prints a sequence of numbers.
Most of the Linux commands you encounter do not depend on other operations for users to unlock their full potential, but there exists a small subset of command line tool which you can say are useless when used independently, but become a must-have or must-know when used with other command line operations. One such tool is yes, and in this tutorial, we will discuss this command with some easy to understand examples.