Many users, beginners and advanced are sometimes confused on how the PATH environment variable is handled on Linux. Why there are so many files .bash_profile, .bashrc,.profile , .bash_login ? (more…)
In this short article, we shall provide a simple explanation of the differences between login and non-login shells as well as between interactive and non-interactive shells. (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…)
A lot of Linux users carry out a long running task on a remote destination without taking into account the possibility that the connection might break. In such situations, notwithstanding (more…)
In this short article, you will learn how to copy one file into many directories. The obvious answer would be to use the cp command but this not is exactly correct since the cp command is rather used to copy several files into (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…)
As computers become more powerful and more efficient, they rapidly drain their batteries because they consume more electricity. While this might depend on the number of running (more…)
Updated on 7/1/2023 – In most Linux distributions, system administrators regularly monitor log files in production environments to assess the system’s health, the status of applications, potential memory issues, high-priority events, and more. This helps (more…)
It could happen, as it did to me, that when you open your Virtual box and start your Ubuntu virtual machine, you get the error below : (more…)
