Parted is a free GNU utility used to manage hard disk partitions from the command line. It can create, delete, resize, and print disk partition, and more on Linux. More often we use parted tool for disk partitioning for running [...]
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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, findmnt, and df commands to list mounted device any Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Centos. In Linux, mount command mounts [...]
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Echo Command in Linux with Examples
Echo is a Unix/Linux command tool used for displaying lines of text or string which are passed as arguments on the command line. This is one of the basic command in linux and most commonly used in shell scripts. In [...]
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How to List Services in Linux
In this article, I will show you how to list all running services on Linux. We will also check how to check the status of a service on a systemd system. Let's learn different commands used to list services on Centos/RHEL 7.x. [...]
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How to Time a Command in Linux
If you want to be a good Linux administrator, therefore you should know time command. It is used to determine how long a given command takes to run. It is useful for testing the performance of your scripts and commands (ie [...]
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Set Time/Date/Timezone in Ubuntu Linux
Time is an important aspect in Linux systems especially in critical services such as cron jobs. Having the correct time on the server ensures that the server operates in a healthy environment that consists of distributed systems and maintains accuracy [...]
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How to Use Linux gunzip Command with Examples
Have you come across files bearing a .gz extension? These are files which have been compressed using the gzip command. Gunzip is a Linux command that is used to decompress such files earing the .gz extension and in this tutorial, we will [...]
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Methods to Use Uniq Command in Linux with Examples
If you are a Linux user and your work involves with working with and manipulating text files and strings, then you should be already familiar with the uniq command, as it is most commonly used in that area. For those [...]
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How to Sort Files by Date Using LS command in Linux
The ls command is used to list directory contents and the results can be sorted upon several criteria such as by date, alphabetical order of filenames, modification time, access time, version and file size. In this article, I will show [...]
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How to Transfer Files on Remote Servers Using SFTP Commands in Linux
SFTP is a protocol that offers a secure and private channel for transfer of files between systems using encryption. A misconception exists about the acronym SFTP, with some thinking it stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol. It stands for SSH [...]
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How to Delete (Remove) a User on Ubuntu
How do I delete a user from your Ubuntu Linux system? Such instances include when users leave the company or when their accounts become dormant for so long. In this tutorial, I will show you how to delete a user and [...]
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8 LDD Command Examples in Linux
Ldd is a Linux command line utility that is used in case a user wants to know the shared library dependencies of an executable or even that of a shared library. You might have noticed many files starting with lib* [...]
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Linux List Group Members in Linux Terminal
In this tutorial, we'll look at different ways of how you can list members of a group in Linux. The /etc/group text file stores group information. There's one entry per line containing the following information: Group name Password Group ID [...]
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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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