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While working on different projects, sometimes you might be required to provide a report or statistics of your progress, or simply to calculate the value of your code. There is this simple yet powerful tool […]

Filesystems are responsible for organizing how data is stored and recovered. One way or another, with time, filesystem may become corrupted and certain parts of it may not be accessible. If your filesystem develops such […]

A JAR (Java ARchive) is platform-independent file format used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources such as text, images, etc, into a single file for distribution. It allows Java runtimes […]

whowatch is a simple, easy-to-use interactive who-like command line program for monitoring processes and users on a Linux system. It shows who is logged on to your system and what they are doing, in a […]

The proc file system is a virtual file system that contains files that store information about processes and other system information. It is mapped to the /proc directory and mounted at boot time. A number […]

There are several command-line tools for managing a wireless network interface in Linux systems. A number of these can be used to simply view the wireless network interface status (whether it is up or down, […]

Exodus is a simple yet useful program for easily and securely copying Linux ELF binaries from one system to another. For example, if you have htop (Linux Process Monitoring Tool) installed on your desktop machine, […]

In order to protect sensitive data extraction from servers by users who have physical access to machines, it’s a best practice to disable all USB storage support in Linux kernel. In order to disable USB […]