A system administrator may have managed more than 1 servers. Then those servers may located in different places. Visiting the servers one by one may not the best way to manage them. Then a remote method can be an effective [...]
LINUX COMMANDS
Some powerful options of Linux Dig command to Query DNS
As Internet grows, people are getting hard to remember IP Addresses as a unique identity for computers. Then Domain Name System (DNS) concept came. DNS will map an IP Addresses into names. Names are easier to remember. The implementation of [...]
Power of Linux wget Command to Downloand Files from Internet
Wget is the command line, non interative , free utility in Unix like Operating systems not excluding Microsoft Windows, for downloading files from the internet. Most of the web browsers require user's presence for the file download to be completed. [...]
Best all Options for DNS lookup using Linux host command
TCP/IP put the computer address in a set of numbers such 74.125.135.99 called IP Address. This number must be unique for every computer in the world. When the TCP/IP grows, its hard to remember every addresses which format like that. [...]
6 Linux head Command Options with Examples
In a previous article, we learned how to use the tail command and its different options. The head command is used to print the first few lines of a text file. By default, the head command prints the first 10 lines of [...]
Linux more Command - Display Long Text File Per page at a Time
If you are used to working with Linux, you will find a lot of file text in Linux world. Configuration files and log files are usually kept in text format. But those file are usually have long content. You can [...]
Linux touch command - Why do we need to change Timestamp?
We may use touch command in Linux to create an empty file. Of course we can use another command such as vi, nano or any editing tools to do it. But you may need more steps do it. But do [...]
Moving or Rename File / Directory in Linux - 10 Practical mv Command Examples
After knowing about copy command, the next command which is related is mv command. When you want to move files from one place to another and you don’t want to duplicate it, then mv command is absolutely right for this [...]
Linux rm Command Examples - Should be Aware and Cautious
When a file no longer needed, we may delete it to save storage space. On Linux system, we can use rm command to do it. What is rm rm is a command to delete a file / directory without confirmation [...]
Create Directory - Subdirectory, What more mkdir Command can do in Linux
After knowing about ls command for listing entries inside the directory, we are now moving to creating a directory in Linux system. On Linux, we can use mkdir command. Mkdir is short for “make directory”. In this article, we show [...]
15 Linux cp Command Examples - Create a Copy of Files and Directories
Copying files or directories is one of basic activity in every operating system. Backup activity is basically is creating a copy of files and directories. On Linux system, we can use cp command to do it. What is copy command [...]
Linux pwd command - Know Your Current Working Directory
Where you are inside a deep directory, sometimes you may want to know where exactly you are. With this pwd command, you can do it. What is pwd Pwd is a command to print name of current / working directory. [...]
20 Linux ls Command Examples to Display the Entries of Directory
One of the basic command in Linux is ls. Without this command, we may find difficulties to explore the content if directories. This command must known by everyone who want to learn Linux. What is ls ls command is used [...]
userdel Command - Delete User Account from Linux system
Maintaining users on the server means add them, modify them and delete them. When a user is no longer need on the system for any reasons, we should delete it to avoid security breach. On Linux system we have userdel [...]