Linux command line users must be familiar with "man" command. It stands for manual pages, which means that every Linux command or utility comes with the set of instructions or possible usage of the command. Man pages are of great [...]
How to Use GPG Commands to Create Public key for Secure Communication
Let us first try to understand what is encryption. Encryption is a process of embedding plain text data in such a way that it cannot be decoded by outsiders. It is necessary to encrypt data to prevent misuse. The GNU [...]
Keeper - A Better Secure Way to Store Password from Command Line
Keeper password manager is a tool that stores password credentials in an encrypted digital vault. You need one master password to gain access to the vault and then create a new entry for password, edit/view previous passwords. You can also [...]
recterm - A Nice Way to Record Videos with Audio on Linux Terminal
We generally record the terminal with a video recorder but the output video is generally blurry and not high quality. ASCIINEMA is a lightweight tool that record and share terminal session with high quality video. The drawbacks of asciinema is [...]
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 [...]
Borg - Linux Backup Tool featured Deduplicating, Compression and Encryption
Borg Backup (aka: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program that supports compression and authenticated encryption.The main goal of Borg is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data. The data deduplication technique used in Borg backup makes it [...]
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 [...]
muzier-cli - A Command Line Tool to Download MP3 from Youtube
There are number of tools available for downloading youtube mp3 using command line interface tool. But these tools generally needs a video player like vlc or mplayer. The muzier command line interface i.e muzier-cli downloads mp3 from youtube and soundcloud [...]
Echofish - Tool to Monitor System Logs via Web Browser
Echofish is a freeware, open source tool which provides the capability to monitor your system logs using your web browser and in an easy to understand format. Log file analysis is not an easy task, especially if you have to [...]
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 [...]
How to Install Kanboard and Authenticate Using Ldap on Ubuntu Linux
Kanboard is a free and open source project management software program which is designed to manage projects efficiently using kanban methodology. Using kanban method one can visualize the work-flow, limiting work in progress and work efficiently. There is a clear [...]
How to Install Tig - Text Mode Interface for Git on Ubuntu 16.04
In this article, we are going show you installation and usage of an awesome tool which is 'tig'. It's a great Git Command Line Tool with ncurses-based text-mode interface for git. Something between the command line and full blown windowed [...]
Psutil - Library to Fectch Running Process and System Utilization Information
Psutil is a python based library, it provides an interface to monitor your computer system's resources. You can use this utility and its available APIs to find out all details about currently running processes, their resource consumption like memory, network [...]
How to Setup OpenLDAP Server and Authenticate Client Workstation
LDAP or lightweight directory access protocol allows anyone to locate and connect to organizations, peoples and other resources like files and devices in a network (public/private). LDAP follows X.500 standard, a standard for directory service in a network that typically [...]