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 …
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We created this vim tutorial for everyone who ever wanted to start out using this gorgeously complex text editor. One of the fascinating things about being a programmer is the ability to code in the terminal. Programmers who use Vim just love it like anything. Those of you who don’t use Vim will hopefully start …
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Let’s look at the different ways in which you can merge multiple files in Linux. We’ll majorly use the cat command for this purpose. So let us begin! For the rest of this tutorial we will consider three files. Let’s create these files: We’ll use the cat command to create these files, but you can …
Linux provides a utility to manage our emails from the command line itself. The mail command is a Linux tool, that allows a user to send emails via a command-line interface. To take advantage of this command, we need to install a package named ‘mailutils’. It can be done by: One thing that must be …
The rsync command in Linux is mainly used to synchronize the files on your machine locally or with a remote machine. When your work is being carried out from multiple locations or on more than just a single machine, synchronizing files will be a extremely useful. Thankfully, we have the rsync command in Linux to …
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The tcpdump command is a Linux utility that allows users to capture network packets that are transmitted to and from the system. In this article, we will learn how to extract and examine network packets using tcpdump command. Although very unlikely, but it may happen that a system may not have tcpdump installed. In that …
In this article, we will be going through some ways to find Large files in Linux. This knowledge can help us to remove some large files that are jacked up in our system’s memory without serving any purpose. Find Large Files in Linux using the Find command As we are searching for files all over …