For those who spend most of their time on the terminal, it may help to change the look and feel of the console in a way that makes them feel at ease. Among the many customizations, users have (more…)
In order to clean a log file, some users simply delete the old file and create a new log file. There are however many ways to remove the content of the log file without having to open it. Make sure (more…)
In this short tutorial, you will see how to replace a string in one or multiple files on Linux/Ubuntu and similar distros. We will consider simple cases only in this article. (more…)
To switch users in one terminal session, you could use the su command : (more…)
Sometimes on Linux Ubuntu/Debian, we want to know in advance what version would we obtain before actually installing a specific package. Using simple tools like aptitude and apt-get makes this very easy to achieve. (more…)
Oftentimes you need to run a command every X seconds on Linux. Granted you can use cron but unfortunately, it does not handle time granularities of less than a minute. (more…)
Sometimes when users try to install an application by executing the usual apt command on Ubuntu, they get the following error: (more…)
To zip all files in a given directory on Linux with the zip tool, you can use * with the zip command. This will take care of files with and without extensions since extensions are not so special on (more…)
Computers nowadays are packed with powerful processors and graphics cards in order to cater for the demanding computations and big screens. This however has some consequences on the hardware: heat . (more…)
In this article we shall discuss how to Google search on Linux using a tool called Googler. Googler, a feature rich and Python based utility, allows users to query Google (Web and News) using the command line on Linux. (more…)
