10 ‘who’ Command Examples for Linux Newbies

In our earlier article, we have explained 11 ways to find user account info and login details in Linux. One of the various commands we mentioned was the who command... Read more

How to Save Command Output to a File in Linux

There are many things you can do with the output of a command in Linux. You can assign the output of a command to a variable, send it to another... Read more

How to Use ‘Yum History’ to Find Out Installed or Removed Packages Info

YUM is an interactive, rpm based, high level package manager for RHEL/CentOS systems, it enables users to install new packages, remove/erase old/unwanted packages. It can automatically run system updates and... Read more

How to Test Website Loading Speed in Linux Terminal

A website response time can have a great impact on user experience, and if you are a web developer, or simply a server administrator who is particularly responsible for organizing... Read more

5 Useful Tools to Remember Linux Commands Forever

There are thousands of tools, utilities, and programs that come pre-installed on a Linux system. You can run them from a terminal window or virtual console as commands via a... Read more

How to Compress and Decompress a .bz2 File in Linux

To compress a file(s), is to significantly decrease the size of the file(s) by encoding data in the file(s) using less bits, and it is normally a useful practice during... Read more

Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password

Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux, however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy as well as input and output logging plugins. It is... Read more

ifconfig vs ip: What’s Difference and Comparing Network Configuration

Linux based distributions have featured set of commands which provide way to configure networking in easy and powerful way through command-line. These set of commands are available from net-tools package... Read more

vlock – A Smart Way to Lock User Virtual Console or Terminal in Linux

Virtual consoles are very important features of Linux, and they provide a system user a shell prompt to use the system in a non-graphical setup which you can only use... Read more

How to Add New Disks Using LVM to an Existing Linux System

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is a flexible and advanced option available to manage hard disks in most of the major Linux distributions. It is easy to manage the disks with... Read more