How to Create Multiple User Accounts in Linux
The two utilities for adding or creating user accounts in Unix/Linux systems are adduser and useradd. These commands are designed to add a single user account in the system at a time. What if...
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How to Use Udev for Device Detection and Management in Linux
Udev (userspace /dev) is a Linux sub-system for dynamic device detection and management, since kernel version 2.6. It’s a replacement of devfs and hotplug. It dynamically creates or removes device nodes (an interface to...
4 Ways to Find Out What Ports Are Listening in Linux
The state of a port is either open, filtered, closed, or unfiltered. A port is said to be open if an application on the target machine is listening for connections/packets on that port. In...
Nix – The Purely Functional Package Manager for Linux
Nix is a powerful, purely functional package management system designed for reliable and reproducible package management, released under the terms of the GNU LGPLv2.1. It is the primary package management system in NixOS, a...
How to Change or Set System Locales in Linux
A locale is a set of environmental variables that defines the language, country, and character encoding settings (or any other special variant preferences) for your applications and shell session on a Linux system. These...
Fzf – A Quick Fuzzy File Search from Linux Terminal
Fzf is a tiny, blazing fast, general-purpose, and cross-platform command-line fuzzy finder, that helps you to search and open files quickly in Linux and Windows operating system. It is portable with no dependencies and...
sysget – A Front-end for Every Package Manager in Linux
Linux comes in many flavors and many of us like to test all kind of distributions until we find the perfect match for our needs. The problem is that based on which major distribution...
How to Install and Use Chrony in Linux
Chrony is a flexible implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP). It is used to synchronize the system clock from different NTP servers, reference clocks or via manual input. It can also be used...
cloc – Count Lines of Code in Many Programming Languages
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...
2 Useful Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux
Organizing your home directory or even system can be particularly hard if you have the habit of downloading all kinds of stuff from the internet. Often you may find you have downloaded the same...
