By default when you create a user in Linux, users default home directory is created under /home. If you noticed on Ubuntu and Debian derivated distribution useradd command won't create a home directory by default. Let's think of s situation [...]
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Wait Command in Linux with Examples
Wait is a shell command that waits for a given process to complete, then returns its exit status. Wait command is used to wait either particular process ID and job ID and return their termination status. When executing the big [...]
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Top 48 Linux Interview Questions & Answers
Are you preparing for a Linux interview? We have prepared some of the commonly asked Linux interview questions and their answers. If you are a beginner (with some knowledge of Linux or having certification) or with professional Linux administration experience, [...]
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How to List Mounted Drives on Linux
In this tutorial, I will show you the different ways to list mounted drives on Linux. We can use mount, cat, findmnt and df commands to list mounted device any Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Centos. In Linux, mount command [...]
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RPM Commands in Linux with Examples
RPM(Redhat Package Manager) is a command line package management utility used for installing, uninstalling, updating, querying and verifying software packages. This article I will explain some of the most common Linux rpm commands for a system admin. Some of the [...]
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How to Customize Shell Variable PS1-PS4 on Bash Prompt
You can see the real beauty of Linux when you use shell commands. There are some tasks which you cannot do in GUI and you have to use the shell. So having knowledge in shell commands, it will keep you [...]
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How to Change Bash Shell Prompt Colorful and Attractive in Linux
Most of us work with a shell prompt. By default most, Linux distro displays hostname and current working directory. But only a few may be knowing about customizing the Bash prompt. You will be excited to know that you can change [...]
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13 Practical df Command Examples to Check Disk Space in Linux
The df command displays the disk space usage for the Linux filesystems. It displays the amount of total and free disk space available on the mounted file systems. Using the command, we can also find used blocks and inodes in [...]
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Docker Commands - Complete Cheat Sheet
This tutorial brings you a docker command cheat list in a printable A4 size and also in a pdf format for your quick reference. Please keep us posted if you need us to add more commands. Commands are categorized in [...]
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How to Configure MariaDB Replication on CentOS Linux
Its a process of creating duplicate versions of a the DB. Replication process is not only copies a database, but also synchronizes changes from master to one of the slaves. But this is does not means that slave databases are [...]
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4 Tools Send Email with Subject, Body and Attachment in Linux
In today's article we will cover a few ways you can use to send emails with attachments from the command line interface on Linux. It can have quite a few uses, for example to send an archive with an application [...]
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Top 20 Network Monitoring Tools in Linux
In this tutorial lets discuss best networking monitoring tools available for linux system. There are a lot of tools available like nethogs, ntopng, nload, iftop, iptraf, bmon, slurm, tcptrack, cbm, netwatch, collectl, trafshow, cacti, etherape, ipband, jnettop, netspeed and speedometer. Each [...]
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Install Vivaldi in Linux - Awesome Multi Platform Browser
A new browser is on the market. Vivaldi is a web browser based on Chromium / Blink (A project from Google), especially created for users who "have problems fitting all their open tabs on one screen" and for better performance than the existing browsers [...]
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Systemd vs Init Cheatsheet for Linux
Systemd is the new init system, starting with Fedora and now adopted in many distributions like RedHat, Suse and Centos. Historically, most of us have been using traditional SysV init scripts normally residing in /etc/rc.d/init.d/. These scripts invoke a daemon [...]
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