As you start using the terminal more, you’ll be continually running a variety of commands. And then you’ll find yourself in the situation where you want to know which commands you run earlier or run a particular command again. This is why
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If you are using any popular Linux distribution including Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, or Fedora, your system uses systemd as its init system. Sure, there are controversies surrounding systemd. But, it is the most used init system. In a systemd-equipped distro, there
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The ps command on Linux is used to monitor the active processes on Linux, and it is one of the most crucial command line utilities, especially for sysadmins and advanced users. So in this tutorial, I will walk you through all the
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Found a stubborn background process eating up system resources? You can kill it using the kill command 😉 But how do you use the kill command? Well, in this tutorial, I will walk you through the essentials needed to learn how to
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“Everything is a file in Linux” and that is the reason most Linux users spend a large chunk of time tinkering the file contents. This is where the importance of the grep command plays a crucial role by letting you search and
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The cut command is used to cut a specific part of a file and print it to the standard output without changing the actual file. In other words, you can pull out a specific number of words or characters from a file
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Most Linux users will use the cat command to print the file contents, and that’s pretty cool until you are dealing with a file worth hundreds of lines. It will fill the entire window with text, which is frustrating, as you may
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No, it does not paste the copied text or items 😲 Surprised? I, too, was shocked when I got to know that the paste command in Linux is used to merge lines from multiple files parallelly. In simple terms, if you have
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SCP reads for Secure Copy Protocol, which uses SSH to securely copy files over the network. Personally, I found this command quite helpful as I constantly play around with multiple VMs for testing. But the question is: How do you use this
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The mv command in Linux is used to rename and move files. Please don’t confuse it with the cp command. The cp command is used to copy files from one to another directory, whereas the mv command is for cutting and pasting
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