How to Delete all Text in a File Using Vi/Vim Editor
Vim is a great tool for editing text or configuration files in Linux. One of the lesser-known Vim tricks is clearing or deleting all text or lines in a file. Although, this is not...
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How to Compare Local and Remote Files in Linux
In this article, we will show how to compare or find the difference between local and remote files in Linux. In a recent post, we reviewed 9 best file comparison and difference (Diff) tools...
HTTP Prompt – An Interactive Command Line HTTP Client
HTTP Prompt (or HTTP-prompt) is an interactive command-line HTTP client built on HTTPie and prompt_toolkit, featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting. It also supports auto cookies, OpenAPI/Swagger integration as well as Unix-like pipelines and output...
How to Calculate IP Subnet Address with ipcalc Tool
When managing a network, you will undoubtedly need to deal with subnetting. Some network administrators are able to do the binary math quite quickly in their head, to determine the subnet mask. However, others...
How to Find Out Who is Using a File in Linux
In this article, we will explain how to find out who is using a particular file in Linux. This will help you know the system user or process that is using an open file....
Todo.txt – Manages Your Todo Tasks from Linux Terminal
Todo.txt (todo.txt-cli) is an easy and extensible shell script for managing your todo.txt file. It allows you to add todos, list added todos, mark an entry as done, appends text to existing lines, and...
Best Command Line Download Accelerators for Linux
When working remotely or even locally, you often may need to obtain content from an external source. To get such content, especially when you don’t have any other options, you will want to use...
2 Ways to Create an ISO from a Bootable USB in Linux
In this article, we will show you how to create an ISO from a bootable USB drive in Linux. We will explain two ways to achieve this: via the command line interface (CLI) and...
fd – A Simple and Fast Alternative to Find Command
Most of the Linux users are well familiar with the find command and the many cases it can be used. Today we are going to review an alternative to find command, called fd. fd,...
MultiCD – Create a MultiBoot Linux Live USB
Having a single CD or USB drive with multiple available operating systems, for install, can be extremely useful in all kind of scenarios. Either for quickly testing or debugging something or simply reinstalling the...
