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12 Practical Examples of Linux Xargs Command for Beginners

November 2, 2018 0
Xargs is a great command that reads streams of data from standard input, then generates and executes command lines; meaning it can take output of a command and passes it... Read more

10 ‘free’ Commands to Check Memory Usage in Linux

November 2, 2018 0
Linux is one of the most popular open source operating system and comes with huge set of commands. The most important and single way of determining the total available space... Read more

Disable Certain Package Updates using YUM in RHEL / CentOS / Fedora

November 2, 2018 0
YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) is an open source default package management system for several Linux flavors like RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System)and Fedora. The YUM... Read more

How to Make File and Directory Undeletable, Even By Root in Linux

November 2, 2018 0
On Unix-like operating systems including Linux, root is the account or user name that by default can modify all directories and files on a system. In this article, we’ll show... Read more

10 Interesting Linux Command Line Tricks and Tips Worth Knowing

November 2, 2018 0
I passionately enjoy working with commands as they offer more control over a Linux system than GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) applications, therefore am always on the look out to discover... Read more

Cricket-CLI – Watch Live Cricket Scores in Linux Terminal

November 2, 2018 0
Are you a cricket enthusiast and love to work within the command-line? Then you have landed on the right resource. We will share with you a simple command-line tool for... Read more

Learn XZ (Lossless Data Compression Tool) in Linux with Examples

November 2, 2018 0
xz is a new general-purpose, command line data compression utility, similar to gzip and bzip2. It can be used to compress or decompress a file according to the selected operation... Read more

20 Linux YUM (Yellowdog Updater, Modified) Commands for Package Management

November 2, 2018 0
In this article, we will learn how to install, update, remove, find packages, manage packages and repositories on Linux systems using YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) tool developed by RedHat. The... Read more

How To Create a Linux Swap File

November 2, 2018 0
In this article, we will explain swap space, and learn how to create swap space using a swap file in Linux: this is important in case we don’t have a... Read more

3 Ways to List All Installed Packages in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

November 2, 2018 0
One of the several duties of a system administrator is to install and manage software on a computer system-Linux in this case and in order keep track of installed/available software... Read more