Month: November 2018

In this guide, we will describe what character encoding and cover a few examples of converting files from one character encoding to another using a command line tool. Then finally,... Read more

Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to you expectations, meaning it does not function correctly as it is... Read more

Some of the special directories that a Linux user is bound to work with so many times on a shell command line include the user’s home directory, the current and... Read more

One of the Linux’s beauties is that you can control almost everything about it. This gives a system administrator a great control over his system and better utilization of the system... Read more

A system administrator often needs to run a command repeatedly in a certain periods of time. Often such tasks can be easily completed with simple cron commands. In most of the... Read more

Firewall is a software that acts as a shield between user’s system and external network allowing some packets to pass while discarding other’s. Firewall commonly operates on network layer i.e.... Read more

Pscp utility allows you to transfer/copy files to multiple remote Linux servers using single terminal with one single command, this tool is a part of Pssh (Parallel SSH Tools), which... Read more

When making backups, coping/moving large files on your Linux system, you may want to monitor the progress of an on going operation. Many terminal tools do not have the functionality... Read more