This article I will show you how to enter docker command without using sudo command on Ubuntu Linux machine. If you use Docker for testing and development on your local machine, you probably experienced of those messages. $ docker run [...]
How to Install and Update Firefox in Linux
Firefox is the most popular web browser among Linux users. In this article we are going to cover topics like Firefox installation, uninstall and update. We will also discuss what kind of problems we can get during mentioned processes. Depending [...]
How to Limit Process at User Level on Linux
Ulimit, as the name signifies, is the user resource limits defined by users for their respective processes. It provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow such control. That [...]
How to Install and Use Netdata Monitoring Tool on Linux
Netdata is a distributed, near real-time, scalable & performance and health monitoring solution for Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. Yes! It is open-source too. It has been developed in such a way that it can be installed on each Linux system, without interrupting or dead-locking the currently running [...]
How to Upgrade Individual Packages in Ubuntu/CentOS
In this article, we'll dive deep and see how we can upgrade specific packages in Ubuntu/CentOS distributions. Once in a while, you may be required to upgrade certain packages and leave others in their default versions. One reason for this [...]
How to Create and Remove alias in Linux
Aliases are very useful when it comes to fast working in Linux. We can use alias to run a long or hard remember command with a simple word. There are two types of aliases – temporary and permanent. In this [...]
Dutree – Command Line Disk Usage Analysis Tool on Linux
DUtree is a combination of Durep and Tree. Durep creates disk usage reports with graphs which allows us to identify which directories are using the most space. Although durep can produce text output similar to du, its real power is the [...]
How to Check Execution Time of a Process in Linux
Have you been wondering how you can find an execution time of a process in Linux or Unix system?. This guide will show you a number of tools which comes in handy when trying to find execution time of a [...]
How to Split Large Text File into Smaller Files in Linux
Linux has several utilities for breaking down large files into small files. Split and csplit are two of the popular commands which are used for this purpose. These utilities will help to break down big log files and even archive [...]
How to Recover Deleted File Using ext3grep on Ubuntu
Sometimes, especially on the command line, it happens that you delete a file or directory unintentionally. Ext3grep is a solution to recover deleted files. Ext3grep fetches information from the file system journal for recovering the deleted files or directory. Ext3grep can recover [...]
How to Enable or Disable Services in Ubuntu Systemd/Upstart
Often, there is a need to enable or disable services temporarily or permanently on our Ubuntu system. Sometimes, we may require certain services to start up automatically on boot up e.g ssh or web servers and sometimes we may need [...]
fkill - Interactive Tool to Kill Processes in Linux
In this guide, I'll demonstrate how you can use fkill-cli to easily kill a process on Linux. fkill-cli is a command line tool written in Nodejs which makes process management on Linux, macOS, and Windows simpler. It provides a guided way [...]
netctl - Setup Wifi and Static IP on Arch Linux
This guide will concentrate on how to setup wifi on Arch Linux using netctl command line tool. Netctl is a CLI-based tool used to configure and manage network connections via profiles on Arch Linux. This command should be provided by the base packages [...]
How to Use Truncate Command in Linux
Welcome to our guide on how to use Truncate Command in Linux. The Linux truncate command is often used to shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size. The final size of the file depends on [...]