I found it cool enough to watch someone, often portrayed as a hacker, use the Linux terminal, especially in the movies. What if I try to become one of the super cool hackers from the Hollywood movies? 😎 Now that I’m older,
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Here’s the scenario. You can connect to a remote Linux system over SSH and you find yourself in a situation where you have to copy some files from the remote server to your local system. How do you do that? You can
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Linux cybersecurity analysts spend countless hours dissecting malicious software to understand its functionality, origin, and impact. Here are six Linux commands that help me in this process, which I believe every professional in the field should have in their toolkit. 1. strings
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You can make yourself more productive in the Linux terminal by creating aliases of the most frequently used command combinations. For example, to update my Ubuntu system, instead of using: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I just use upd
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Being a Linux user, I can relate to your fascination with CPUs. There are times when you want to know every detail of your computer. How many cores are there? Is it virtual or physical processor? Who is the manufacture? And much
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The world of software packages on Linux and other Unix-based systems is quite a savannah: each system has its own singular package management approach, making a hell the life of who has to deal with multiple platforms. There are Pacman for Arch
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Bash the most common shell. Zsh is the most popular one among developers. But Fish is the most underrated one. I am not exaggerating. Fish indeed is an overlooked shell that could be a great fit for beginners and advanced FOSSers alike.
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Bash is not the only shell out there. There are many other shells available with slightly different feature sets. A few examples are Zsh, Fish, Ksh are Xonsh. You can have more than one shell installed on your system at any given
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Sure, learning the Linux commands should always be your priority but once you get a grip on the command line, there’s one other thing you should focus on. Terminal shortcuts! You have no idea how helpful they are until you know how
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How do you find files in the Linux command line? You use the find command. That’s the standard answer and there is nothing wrong with it. Usually, you type the command with your search parameters, press enter and it displays the findings.
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