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...
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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...
Rclone – Sync Files Directories from Different Cloud Storage
Rclone is a command line program written in Go language, used to sync files and directories from different cloud storage providers such as: Amazon Drive, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Box, Ceph, DigitalOcean Spaces, Dropbox,...
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...
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...
