20 Funny Commands of Linux or Linux is Fun in Terminal
Linux is fun! Huhhh. OK so you don’t believe me. Mind me at the end of this article you will have to believe that Linux is actually a fun box. 1. Command: sl (Steam...
Category: Linux Commands
Switching From Windows to Nix or a Newbie to Linux – 20 Useful Commands for Linux Newbies
So you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux, or have just switched to Linux? Oops!!! what I am asking! For what else reason would you have been here. From my past experience...
Install Innotop to Monitor MySQL Server Performance
Innotop is an excellent command line program, similar to ‘top command‘ to monitor local and remote MySQL servers running under InnoDB engine. Innotop comes with many features and different types of modes/options, which helps...
Ncdu a NCurses Based Disk Usage Analyzer and Tracker
ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a command line version of the most popular “du command“. It is based on ncurses and provides a fastest way to analyse and track what files and directories are...
Pydf an Alternative “df” Command to Check Disk Usage in Different Colours
The “pydf” (Python Disk File System) is an advanced command line tool and a good alternative to Linux “df comand”. It is used to display the amount of used and available disk space on...
20 Practical Examples of RPM Commands in Linux
RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is an default open source and most popular package management utility for Red Hat based systems like (RHEL, CentOS and Fedora). The tool allows system administrators and users to...
25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management
This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful commands that will help...
10 Useful “IP” Commands to Configure Network Interfaces
In this post, we are going to review how we can assign Static IP Address, Static Route, Default Gateway etc. Assigning IP Address on demand using IP command. IFCONFIG command is deprecated and replaced...
NetHogs – Monitor Per Process Network Bandwidth Usage in Real Time
Linux operating systems have tons of open source network monitoring tools on the web. Say, you can use iftop command to check bandwidth usage, netstat command to see reports on interface statistics or top...
A Basic Guide to Linux Boot Process
As promised in our earlier post, in this post we are going to review boot process in Linux Operating System. How Operating system passes through different stage of booting states. This article is written...
