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

How to Install Particular Package Version in CentOS and Ubuntu

Usually, when you install a package in CentOS and Ubuntu, the package management software selects the latest package version from the repository, by default. However, sometimes, for one reason or... Read more

13 Basic Cat Command Examples in Linux

The cat (short for “concatenate“) command is one of the most frequently used command in Linux/Unix like operating systems. cat command allows us to create single or multiple files, view... Read more

Agedu – A Useful Tool for Tracking Down Wasted Disk Space in Linux

Assume you are running short on disk space and you wanted to free up, by searching something that’s a waste of space and removing it or moving it to an... Read more

Rename All Files and Directory Names to Lowercase in Linux

In our previous article, we have described how to count the number of files and subdirectories inside a given directory. This guide will show you how to rename all files... Read more

Deprecated Linux Networking Commands and Their Replacements

In our previous article, we have covered some useful command line networking utilities for Sysadmin’s for network management, troubleshooting and debugging on Linux. We mentioned some networking commands that are... Read more

How to Control Systemd Services on Remote Linux Server

Systemd system and services manager can be controlled using the systemctl command line utility. It enables you to manage systemd locally or on a remote Linux machine over the SSH... Read more

How to Backup or Clone Linux Partitions Using ‘cat’ Command

A rough utilization of Linux cat command would be to make a full disk backup or a disk partition backup or cloning of a disk partition by redirecting the command... Read more

fswatch – Monitors Files and Directory Changes or Modifications in Linux

fswatch is a cross-platform, file change monitor that gets notification alerts when the contents of the specified files or directories are altered or modified. It executes four types of monitors... Read more