In this tutorial, we will be learning how to schedule tasks with crontabs in Linux. Crontab stands for cron table which contains a list of tasks which are scheduled to run at a regular interval of time. These tasks are then executed by a daemon called cron. All users on the machine can have their […]
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In this tutorial, we will be learning how to use the fuser command in Linux. There are many process management tool for Linux, fuser offers something different. Fuser lets you look for process using a particular file, a directory or a socket. With fuser you can then kill and manage these processes. General Syntax of
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In this article, I’ll introduce you to a Python library called Geopy. It is a geocoding package What is Geocoding? Geopy is a Python client for many common web services for geocoding, making it easy to locate the coordinates of an address, a city, or a country for Python developers, and vice versa. It uses
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In this tutorial, we will be learning how to install Etcher on Ubuntu. Etcher is a strong OS image burner tool for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is simple to use the tool and one of the few GUI image burning tool that is available for windows. There are two ways you can install Etcher:
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In this tutorial, we will be learning how to install and set up the Tor Browser on Linux. Tor is a free and open-source software that gives anonymity and privacy to its users. All the traffic that passes through Tor network is encrypted and it is virtually impossible to track the IP address back to
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In this article, we’ll be talking about the pstree command in Linux. When it comes to finding running processes on your Linux system, there are multiple options available. The ps command is the more popular option among these options. The top command is another popular choice for viewing the currently running processes. Both of these
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The expr command in Linux evaluates a given expression for you and displays the output. It also lets you perform certain string operations such as finding length, substring and more. In this tutorial, we will learn how to perform these operations. First, we will look at the arithmetic operations and then move on to the
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The nohup command, short for no hang-up is used to run a process in the background. A process that has been ‘nohuped’ will continue to run even if the terminal from which it was run is closed. In effect, nohup disconnects the process from the terminal. nohup Command Basic Usage Before going into the usage
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The cmp command is used to compare two files on Linux and Unix. It is mostly useful for scripts, as it only reports whether the files are different or not. It does not report the differences. Likewise, it can also be used to compare non-text files like libraries, images, music, etc. This command should work on
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The install command in Linux copies files and sets file attributes. It is not to be used for installing packages. For installing packages on to your Linux system you should use apt command or yum command. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use the install command for copying files and changing file attributes.