These days, you can’t throw a USB stick without hitting something that’s running Linux. It might be a phone, an embedded device, or your TV. Either way, it’s running Linux, and somewhere along the ...

Carrying over from yesterday’s examination of the Ubuntu command line, today’s installment of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux is dedicated to ‘man’ and ‘grep’. These commands wield significant power, and ...

The everlastingly useful grep command can change its character with the flip of a switch to help you find things. The grep command – likely one of the first ten commands that every Unix user comes to ...

One of the best things about Linux is that it offers several ways of handling every task. Everything you do in Linux will have an alternative method, from the simplest to the most complex. But don't ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required for ...

Ooooh, great article to wake up to. I find the following alias commands, which I set system wide in /etc/profile.d/custom.sh, on my primary file server and anything ...