Tutorials

In this article, we’ll cover the basic commands for memory management in Linux. Memory management is a vast topic and covering it in one blog post will not do it justice. In this tutorial, we will mainly go over the commands that you can use to observe your memory statistics. Physical vs Virtual Memory in

In this article, we’re talking about the tty command in Linux. The Linux operating system uses file system to represent everything. Not just the text files and images but even the hardware and the terminal. Yes, even the terminal you use to interact with Linux is actually a file. tty is the command that displays

The od command in Linux converts displays the contents of a file in different formats. Octal is the default format, however, it is not the only format under od command. What is the od command in Linux? od is short for Octal Dump and developers use this command to debug scripts in Linux. The main

This article demonstrates the various ways to find the Linux version of your system. Linux version can either mean the kernel version that runs the entire system or the version of the Linux distribution currently using. If you wish to find out the Linux kernel version, then head here, otherwise proceed with this article. The

It is nearly impossible to use Linux without knowing about the cd command. It is one of the first commands a person learns when they start working on Linux. The cd command lets us change directories. cd is short for ‘Change Directory‘. Linux file system consists of directories and subdirectories (directories within directories). A directory

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