Linux Commands for Linux Beginners
bc (Basic Calculator) is a command line utility that offers everything you expect from a simple scientific or financial calculator. It is a language that supports arbitrary precision numbers with interactive execution of statements...
Back in the mid-1990’s when the Internet was still in its infancy, a Swedish programmer named Daniel Stenberg started a project that eventually grew into what we know as curl today. Initially, he aimed...
Browsh is an open source, simple and modern text-based browser that renders in TTY terminal environments. It is made up of a minimal Golang CLI front-end and a browser web-extension (headless Firefox) which actually...
Normally, files compressed using gzip can be restored to their original form using gzip -d or gunzip commands. What if you want to view the contents of a compressed file without uncompressing it? For...
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 as argument of another...
In our last article, we have explained how to use df (disk filesystem) utility to report file system disk space usage in Linux. We have discovered yet a another great utility for the same...
fping is a small command line tool to send ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) echo request to network hosts, similar to ping, but much higher performing when pinging multiple hosts. fping totally differs from...
Wikit is a free and open source command line program for easily viewing Wikipedia summaries of search queries; it is built using Nodejs. The verb Wikit (derived from “wikipedia it“) means looking up something...
In Linux, the passwd command is used to set or change user account passwords, while using this command sometimes users may encountered the error: “passwd: Authentication token manipulation error” as shown in below example....
whowatch is a simple, easy-to-use interactive who-like command line program for monitoring processes and users on a Linux system. It shows who is logged on to your system and what they are doing, in...
