Birthdays are special occasions, and it’s very satisfying and a pleasure to get birthday wishes from loved ones. As a Linux user, you can surprise our friends and family with some cool birthday wishes from the terminal. Here’s a birthday card (or
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In my opinion, the ls command is the most used Linux command as it is often used to verify the outcome of the previous operation by listing the directory contents. The ls command stands for a list; all it does is list
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You can do a lot of things with bash scripts. Performing simple arithmetic operations with the variables is one of them. The syntax for arithmetic operations in the bash shell is this: $((arithmetic_operation)) Let’s say you have to calculate the sum of
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You can add external repositories in Ubuntu to access packages unavailable in the official repositories. For example, if you install Brave browser in Ubuntu, you add its repository to your system. If you add a PPA, that is added as an external
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With some effort, you can run Windows applications on Linux using Wine. Wine is a tool you can try when must use an Windows-only application on Linux. Please note that you CANNOT run any Windows games or software with Wine. Please go
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Red Hat made a decision to restrict access to its source code for paying customers only. This move is likely to ‘kill’ projects like Rocky Linux and Alma Linux that have filled the void left by CentOS (also killed by Red Hat).
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The cat command is used to print the file contents of text files. At least, that’s what most Linux users use it for and there is nothing wrong with it. Cat actually stands for ‘concatenate’ and was created to merge text files.
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PHP 8, the latest major release of the popular server-side scripting language, comes with numerous exciting features and performance enhancements. If you’re running RHEL 8 or Rocky Linux 8 or CentOS 8 and want to take advantage of PHP 8, you’re in
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Let’s have arguments… with your bash scripts 😉 You can make your bash script more useful and interactive by passing variables to it. Let me show you this in detail with examples. Pass arguments to a shell script When you run a
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Hello techies, in this post we will cover how to install and use wireshark in Ubuntu 22.04. Wireshark is free and open source, cross platform, GUI based Network packet analyzer that is available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Solaris etc. It captures network
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