Day: November 2, 2018

Linux top command is highly used by system administrators to display system statistics in real time regarding system uptime and load average, used memory, running tasks, a summary of processes... Read more

ZIP is a very popular compression and file packaging utility for Unix-like operating systems as well as Windows. While perusing through the zip man page, I discovered some useful options... Read more

The locate is a command line utility for finding files by name in Linux, just like find command. However, it works more efficiently compared to its counterpart; it uses one... Read more

This article will show you eleven useful ways to find the information about users on a Linux system. Here we’ll describe commands to get a user’s account details, show login... Read more

In this article, we will briefly describe YUM, YumDB, then the cause of Yum Error: database disk image is malformed and how to fix this error. YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified)... Read more

Sometimes it can be painful to navigate the Linux file system with commands, especially for the newbies. Normally, we primarily use the cd (Change Directory) command for moving around the... Read more

While navigating the file system via the command line on Linux systems, in order to move back into a parent directory (in a long path), we would normally issue the... Read more

I am always fascinated by the things going on behind the scenes when I boot a Linux system and log on. By pressing the power button on a bare metal... Read more

In most cases the means we use to delete a file from our computers such as using Delete key, Trash files or rm command, which do not permanently and securely... Read more

While learning Linux, it is always the norm for newbies to keep on typing several commands to accomplish a simple task. This is understandable especially when one is just getting... Read more