29 Practical Examples of Nmap Commands for Linux System/Network Administrators

The Nmap aka Network Mapper is an open source and a very versatile tool for Linux system/network administrators. Nmap is used for exploring networks, perform security scans, network audit and... Read more

Advanced Copy Command – Shows Progress Bar While Copying Large Files/Folders in Linux

Advanced-Copy is a powerful command line program which is very much similar, but little modified version of original cp command. This modified version of cp command adds a progress bar... Read more

An Easy Way to Hide Files and Directories in Linux

Do you occasionally share your Linux desktop machine with family members, friends or perhaps with colleagues at your workplace, then you have a reason to hide certain private files as... Read more

10 7zip (File Archive) Command Examples in Linux

7-Zip is a free open source, cross-platform, powerful, and fully-featured file archiver with a high compression ratio, for Windows. It has a powerful command line version that has been ported... Read more

A Command Line Web Browsing with Lynx and Links Tools

For some people around the globe, a web browser that render text along with graphics is important since it gives an easy to use and attractive interface, glossy look, nice... Read more

Ncdu a NCurses Based Disk Usage Analyzer and Tracker

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command line version of the most popular “du command“. It is based on ncurses and provides a fastest way to analyse and track what... Read more

How to Run Shell Scripts with Sudo Command in Linux

sudo is a powerful command line tool that enables a “permitted user” to run a command as another user (the superuser by default), as defined by a security policy. On... Read more

20 MySQL (Mysqladmin) Commands for Database Administration in Linux

mysqladmin is a command-line utility the comes with MySQL server and it is used by Database Administrators to perform some basic MySQL tasks easily such as setting root password, changing... Read more

How to Download MP3 Tracks from a YouTube Video Using YouTube-DL

We all love listening to music. Whether it’s in the gym, at work, outside, music is part of our life. Everyone has their own music collection and undoubtedly everyone likes... Read more

Block SSH Server Attacks (Brute Force Attacks) Using DenyHosts

DenyHosts is an open source and free log-based intrusion prevention security program for SSH servers developed in Python language by Phil Schwartz. It is intended to monitor and analyzes SSH... Read more