5 Ways to Find a ‘Binary Command’ Description and Location on File System

With the thousands of commands/programs available in Linux systems, knowing the type and purpose of a given command as well as its location (absolute path) on the system can be... Read more

10 Wget (Linux File Downloader) Command Examples in Linux

In this post we are going to review wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. Wget utility is... Read more

20 Advanced Commands for Linux Experts

Thanks for all the likes, good words and support you gave us in the first two part of this article. In the first article we discussed commands for those users... Read more

How to Determine and Fix Boot Issues in Linux

The Linux system boots so fast that most of the output scrolls by too quickly to read the text (showing services being started) sent to the console. Therefore observing boot... Read more

How to Add a New Disk to an Existing Linux Server

As system administrators, we would have got requirements wherein we need to configure raw hard disks to the existing servers as part of upgrading server capacity or sometimes disk replacement... Read more

How to Copy File Permissions and Ownership to Another File in Linux

Assuming you have two files or you have just created a new file and want it to have the same permissions and ownership of an older file. In this article,... Read more

Securing SSH Using Key Based Authentication

Securing SSH Access to your VPS is imperative these days. Within minutes of your VPS being live on the internet, ‘bad actors’ will attempt to gain access. Having a good... Read more

How to Enable Syntax Highlighting in Vi/Vim Editor

One of the easiest ways to boost the readability and context of the text in a configuration file or your source code for various programing languages, is by using a... Read more

How Do I Access or Mount Windows/USB NTFS Partition in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora

Sometimes it may happens in some stage, you may have to access data on a Windows partition, USB device or any similar device. Today most of the modern Linux systems... Read more

The Silver Searcher – A Code Searching Tool for Programmers

The Silver Searcher is a free and open source, cross platform source code searching tool similar to ack (a grep-like tool for programmers) but faster. It runs on Unix-like systems... Read more