Linux Tricks

YUM plug-ins are small programs that extend and improve the overall performance of the package manager. A few of them

In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, “everything is a file” and a file is fundamentally a link to an

Wildcards (also referred to as meta characters) are symbols or special characters that represent other characters. You can use them

In our previous article, we have described how to count the number of files and subdirectories inside a given directory.

As a system administrator, you will inevitably perform scheduled system maintenances at some point or another. A few times, your

In this tutorial, we will explain auxiliary file permissions, commonly referred to as “special permissions” in Linux, and also we

There are many things you can do with the output of a command in Linux. You can assign the output

The shutdown command schedules a time for a Linux system to be powered down, it may as well be used

Sometimes it can be painful to navigate the Linux file system with commands, especially for the newbies. Normally, we primarily

In a previous article, we explained the difference between shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot Linux commands, where we uncovered what

The /tmp directory contains mostly files that are required temporarily, it is used by different programs to create lock files