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What is the Linux tr command? The tr command in Linux is an excellent tool which can be used for text manipulation of specific characters within text files. With this tool you are able to translate strings of characters from standard input (also known as stdin) and it will write that translation into standard output […]
What is the PWD command in Linux? There are various situations when you may need to know the exact path of your present working directory. The PWD command in Linux is useful in many cases and it will show you the full path to your current working directory or “present working directory” which is what […]
When working from a graphical interface such as Gnome and KDE, are you putting spaces in the filename or directory names? Did you know that doing so will make it harder to work with the files from the command line on UNIX like systems? In this post, we are going to explore this in depth […]
When you first start using Linux, you’ll need only a handful of commands. As you gain experience, you learn more of them, but the complexity of the commands increases. Commands like awk, df, git, etc., all have a huge range of options and endless combinations of them. Every Linux system administrator and every server has […]
In this blog post, we look at another everyday Linux command line tool, the mv command. The mv command in Linux is used for moving files and directories from one location to another. It is part of GNU coreutils so not only will you find it on Linux, but you will also find it on […]
Do you use Iptables and are looking to check the loaded rules? In this post, we first touch on some background, such as how to make sure you aren’t using a firewall frontend, and then get into checking firewall rules. In this post, we will touch on a few different ways of checking iptables rules […]
Within a shared or multi-tenant hosting environment there important items to keep in mind such as server stability, resource allocation for clients, software version requirements and maintaining security. In this article, we’ll be going over the benefits of CloudLinux and utilizing Cagefs in those environments. What is Cloudlinux? Cloudlinux (CL) is an operating system available […]
Are you trying to unmount and getting this message? Typically, the cause of this is that something is trying to access data stored on the disk. In this post we will look at what this message means, and solutions so you can resolve the error message. What Is The Umount Command The umount command is […]
We use the xxd command in Linux to convert a file into its hex equivalent and to show the hex output side by side with the ASCII representation. This might seem like a niche use case scenario, but it’s surprisingly useful for debugging. There are certain file formats, for example, that are supposed to start […]
The “envsubst” tool is part of the GNU’s “gettext” package that programmers use to create multilingual programs. We use envsubst to substitute environment variables in a file or a data stream. This is particularly useful when creating and adapting configuration file templates in a variety of scenarios. For example, you sometimes have a template configuration […]