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...
Category: Linux Commands
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...
How to Limit File Download Speed Using Wget in Linux
Wget is a widely used, non-interactive command line utility for retrieving files from the web. Just like most similar tools out there, it supports limiting of download speed, which allows you to set the...
Bat – A Cat Clone with Syntax Highlighting and Git Integration
Bat is a cat command clone with advance syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages and it also comes with Git integration to show file modifications. Its other features include...
The Silver Searcher – A Code Searching Tool for Programmers
The Silver Searcher is a free and open source, cross platform source code searching tool similar to ack (a grep-like tool for programmers) but faster. It runs on Unix-like systems and Windows operating systems....
10 tr Command Examples in Linux
tr (short for translate) is a useful command line utility that translates and/or deletes characters from stdin input, and writes to stdout. It is a useful program for manipulating text on the command line....
4 Ways to Disable Root Account in Linux
The root account is the ultimate account on a Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. This account has access to all commands and files on a system with full read, write and execute permissions....
How to Search and Remove Directories Recursively on Linux
In one of our previous articles, we explained how to find out top directories and files consuming the most disk space on file system in Linux. If you notice that such directories no longer...
