Ways to Use ‘find’ Command to Search Directories More Efficiently

This tutorial will take you through the different ways of finding a directory in Linux. As you may already know, in Linux everything is a file including directories. And one... Read more

fdupes – A Command Line Tool to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux

It is a common requirement to find and replace duplicate files for most of the computer users. Finding and removing duplicate files is a tiresome job that demands time and... Read more

Linux zcat Command Examples for Newbies

Normally, files compressed using gzip can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip commands. What if you want to view the contents of a compressed file... Read more

10 sFTP Command Examples to Transfer Files on Remote Servers in Linux

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was widely used protocol to transfer files or data remotely in unencrypted format which is not secure way to communicate. As we all know that File... Read more

How to Set Time, Timezone and Synchronize System Clock Using timedatectl Command

The timedatectl command is a new utility for RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 21+ based distributions, which comes as a part of systemd system and service manager, a replacement for old... Read more

Kurly – An Alternative to Most Widely Used Curl Program

Kurly is a free open source, simple but effective, cross-platform alternative to the popular curl command-line tool. It is written in Go programming language and works in the same way... Read more

How to Run Commands from Standard Input Using Tee and Xargs in Linux

While using the command line, you can directly pass the output of one program (for example a tool that generates some system information or statistics) as input for another program... Read more

Understanding Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt and Reboot Commands in Linux

In this article, we will explain to you the difference between shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot Linux commands. We will make clear what they actually do when you execute them... Read more

25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management

This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful... Read more

10 Linux Dig (Domain Information Groper) Commands to Query DNS

In our last article we have showed you the most used 8 Nslookup commands with their examples, now here we come with another command line tool called Dig, which is... Read more