Linux Tricks

Sometimes you may find it useful to display the access rights of files or directories in octal form instead of

Some of the special directories that a Linux user is bound to work with so many times on a shell

When you have important sensitive data, then its crucial to have an extra layer of security to your files and

Have you ever typed a command and rushed to hit Enter, only to find that you had a typo in

Similarly to the previous tip about find out top processes by RAM and CPU usage, you can also use top

I remember once reading that efficient system administrators are lazy people. The reason is not that they’re not doing their

One of the Linux’s beauties is that you can control almost everything about it. This gives a system administrator a

In Linux, you can change the maximum amount of open files. You may modify this number by using the ulimit

A rough utilization of Linux cat command would be to make a full disk backup or a disk partition backup

In Linux (also UNIX) $PATH is environment variable, used to tell the shell where to look for executable files. $PATH variable