You can have more than one user on the same Linux system. The finger command in Linux displays information about the users on the system. It is also referred to as the user information lookup program. It is not present on most distributions by default. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install and …
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The at command in Linux lets you schedule tasks for execution at a later time in the future. These tasks can be execution of commands or running of shell scripts. However, the at command only performs the task once. It can’t be used for performing recurring tasks. In this tutorial, we will learn how to …
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Linux offers really good text processing and editing tools. One of these tools is the uniq command. The uniq command helps you detect and delete adjacent occurrences of the same line. That means it deals with repetitions of sentences in a piece of text. Using the uniq command in Linux In this tutorial we will …
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Banner command in Linux displays ASCII character strings in large size on the standard output. This is useful when you want to display a string to be seen when someone logs in using the terminal. The strings are created using the character ‘#’. This will become clear as we demonstrate the command here. This will …
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The Whatis command returns a small one-line description for Linux commands. It gets this description from the command’s man-page. “whatis” searches for the argument that you pass along with it and returns the one-line description from the man-page wherever there is a match. In this tutorial we will learn how to use the whatis command …
The type command in Linux displays information regarding Linux commands. It tells you the type of a Linux command. Type of command is indicative of how the system interprets the command. Different types of command are : alias shell built-in file function keyword  We can also use type command to get the location and executable …
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Man pages are the authoritative source of information for specific Linux commands. However, seldom do these man pages include practical examples for the commands that might save some time for the user. Here, in this article, I give you the cheat sheet of Linux commands. Let us know in the comments which ones you already …
Continuing from our previous tutorial on the steps to install Arch Linux, in this tutorial we will learn how to install GUI on Arch Linux. Arch Linux is a light weight, highly customizable linux distro. Its installation does not include a desktop environment. It will only take a few steps to install your favorite Desktop …
In this tutorial, we will be learning how to install Arch Linux. Arch Linux is one of the most lightweight, highly customizable Linux distros out there. Arch Linux has great community support and it is used by thousands of developers around the world. However, Arch Linux installation is known to be painful and time-consuming. People …
In this tutorial we will be learning how to use the ubuntu terminal efficiently. You’ll find a lot of interesting things in this tutorial that might boost your productivity while using Ubuntu. Alright let’s get right into it! First to run the terminal in ubuntu we can press Ctrl+Alt+T or you can press the Super(windows) …