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.
The read command in Bash reads a line from the standard input and splits it into fields.
If you’ve ever used the command line on a Linux machine, chances are you’ve got a long history of commands logged. If you want to clear this history, there are a few simple steps that can help you do just that.
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.
Glances is a free, open-source, and cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python. It is a real-time system monitoring tool that monitors system resources, including CPU, Memory, Load, Disk I/O, Processes, File System space, Network interface and more.
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.