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A group in Linux is a way to bunch users together so that they’re easier to manage in one place. The easiest way to demonstrate the power of groups is to show how we can manage their permissions in one go. But you can do more than just manage permissions. With special “control groups”, you […]
Linux allows you to use the bash prompt to provide the input for a variety of commands. For example, let’s say you want to quickly create a file with some text. The following will work nicely: echo “Test file” > testfile.txt This will create a file called “testfile.txt” as shown here: You can see that […]
The “find” command in Linux is more than what meets the eye. On the surface, it’s a simple way to search for files and folders. But once you understand its power, you’ll see that it can be used for more than that. First I’ll show you how to use its basic functionality, and then we’ll […]
In Linux, /dev/shm is a special location that you can use to store files and folders. This location is available to all applications that use the system and is incredibly fast because the data isn’t stored on the disk, but in RAM. In addition, the data is only temporarily stored and is lost after a […]
On Debian systems like Ubuntu, we keep all our packages up to date by using the following commands: sudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade The first statement gets the list of all updated packages from the repositories and also compares what you have to what’s available, thereby creating a checklist for things to update and giving […]
You can issue commands to Linux directly on the command line, or you could put them in a script so that a bunch of commands can run at once. Even though you could, in theory, do away with scripts altogether and issue everything on the command line, scripts make sense for various reasons. One is […]
Nslookup is a staple of Linux, and network administrators use it extensively to debug a variety of issues from e-mails not being delivered to websites not loading. DNS lookup is a fundamental part of our Internet infrastructure, and nslookup allows us to query a DNS server to see if a given domain name is properly […]
After you’ve run a Linux server for a long time, it can be time to clean house and optimize your system. One of the easiest ways to get started is to search your system for large files and see where you can get rid of big stuff with the least impact. You might find that […]
The gunzip command in Linux is used to unzip files that have been compressed using the “gzip” format. As such, it can’t unzip files that use a different compression mechanism like say, rar files or even the “zip” files that we see on Windows. Here, I’ll show you how to use the gunzip command to […]
ISO files are a common way to distribute files and folders that would normally be stored on a physical disk. Unlike archive files like tar and zip files, ISO files are meant to be bootable. In this article, I’ll show you how to mount and unmount an ISO file on a Linux system so that […]