All About Linux.

The pwd command in Linux prints the complete path of the current working directory. PWD is short for Print Working Directory. It comes in handy to check the directory you are currently operating from. The command to change directories is cd. Basics of the pwd command Using pwd command is really easy. Type in the

As the name suggests, the locate command in Linux is used to find files in the system by their names. This command is more efficient than the prominent find command that serves the same purpose. The reason for this efficacy is that the locate command uses a database instead of traversing through the entire file

This article talks about the nice command in Linux. In Linux, each process has a nice value granted to it. This value influences the scheduling of processes and thereby determining the amount of CPU to spent on each one of them. “The more the nice value, the less the supposed priority”. This ultimately means that

The free command is a very compact yet incredible utility in Linux which must be in the arsenal of any computer geek. This command deals with the system’s memory statistics. These statistics come in handy when we wish to know whether we can run more applications in our system. Let us quickly move onto the

Let’s look at the various ways to create and rename directories in Linux. In Linux, files are organized in the form of directories and subdirectories. The root directory (“/”) is at the base of the file system. There can be directories within directories, these are called sub-directories. It is important to know how to create and

When you have a lot of files to manage, it makes sense to maintain a good naming convention. So how can you rename multiple files in Linux? Let’s look at the different ways to bulk rename files using the command line and graphical tools. Rename Multiple Files in Linux with Command Line There are multiple

There can be multiple users on a Linux system. If you want to list all users in Ubuntu, the information is present in the /etc/passwd file. This file stores the list of users on the system along with important information regarding these users. /etc/passwd file is used at the time of login. We can obtain

Today, we’ll go over the steps to add a user to a group in Linux. In Linux users can belong to one or many groups. These groups make it easy to give permissions to a collection of users in one go. Furthermore, users can be added to groups, removed from groups, we can create new

This article covers the exact steps that you’d need to install notepad++ in Linux. Notepad++ is an open-source programming utility initially launched for Windows Operating System. The rise of popularity for this code editor brought its onset to other operating systems. Before installing Notepad++, there are certain things any Linux user should know: Wine –

This article is a brief overview of what Sudo nopasswd is and how to run commands on Linux as a sudo user without having to enter your password every time. Sudo (superuser do) command in Linux lets a user run a command as the root by entering your password . However, if you are the