Fantastic tutorials for learning more about Linux based operating systems.
In this tutorial, we will take you through how to utilize the tar command on a Linux or Unix distribution. Using this command will allow you to archive and extract tar archive. These archives are sometimes known as a tarball. Read More...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the stat command on your Linux operating system. This utility gives you a wealth of information about your files and filesystems. This data includes the files access and modification times. Read More...
In this guide, you will learn how to use the touch command on your Linux device. You can use touch to change the access or modification time of a file. You can even use the command to create empty files. Read More...
In this guide, you will learn how to use the cat command on your Linux system. cat allows you to create, edit and join the content of files. You can even modify the output by adding line numbers, highlighting line ends, and more. Read More...
This tutorial will take you through some of the ways you can utilize the grep command on Linux-based distributions. We cover topics such as searching for whole words, multiple phrases, searching recursively, and much more. Read More...
This guide will show you how to use the top command on Linux. Using top allows you to monitor the resource usage of your system. For example, easily identify what processes consume the most memory or CPU time on your device. Read More...
In this tutorial, we will take you through all you need to know about the wget command. This command is a free utility that allows you to download files easily. It supports most protocols such as FTP, HTTP, and HTTPS. Read More...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable SSH on a Debian system. SSH allows you to connect to your devices securely remotely. Using this, you can send commands to your system, transfer files, and more. Read More...
In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the PWD command on a Linux distribution. The pwd command is short for print working directory and is used to output the full path of the current working directory. It is a handy comment to understand. Read More...
In this guide, you will learn how to set, list, and use environment variables on Linux. These variables are essential to Linux and help define the current working environment. Using these, you can store bits of information related to the current system or user. Read More...
This tutorial will show you how easy it is to install Nginx on an Ubuntu system. Nginx is one of the most used web servers in the world. It has become the backbone for some of the biggest websites in the world, including Netflix, WordPress.org, and more. In fact, we even use Nginx to run […] Read More...
In this guide, you will be learning some of the ways that you can rename a file or directory on a Linux system. There are two ways that we will be focusing on. One is the mv command which is excellent for simple renames. The other is the Perl rename tool. Read More...
In this guide we will be teaching you some of the easy ways to kill a process on a Linux based system. This tutorial touches on three commands that are designed to terminate processes by sending what is called a kill signal. These three commands are kill, pkill and killall. Read More...
In this guide you will be learning how easy it is to list all of the users on a Linux-based system. Listing users is as easy as reading the contents of the passwd file. We will also show you some simple ways to filter the returned data or check for a specific user. Read More...
This guide will show you how to use the find command on a Linux system to search for files. The find tool is incredibly powerful, boasting a plethora of options to configure what files it finds. You can even use it to execute commands on the found files. Read More...
This guide will explain what the build-essential meta-package is on the Ubuntu operating system. build-essential contains everything you need to compile the most basic C and C++ packages on your Ubuntu system. It is also super easy to install. Read More...
This guide will show you how to install and run the VLC media player on the Ubuntu operating system. VLC is one of the most popular video players available for Ubuntu, boasting support for the vast majority of video and audio codecs. Read More...
This guide will walk you through the simple process of installing the Docker virtualization platform to the Ubuntu operating system. Docker is an easy-to-use container-based virtualization system. These containers are separated from the host and can have their own OS. Read More...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to give a user sudo privileges on Ubuntu by adding them to the sudoers file. Additionally, we will also show you some more straightforward methods you can use that don't give you as much fine-tuned control over sudo. Read More...
This guide will show you how easy it is to edit the hosts file on the Ubuntu operating system. The hosts file is used by the system to resolve a hostname to an IP address without needing to communicate with an outside domain name server. Read More...