Sometimes when users try to install an application by executing the usual apt command on Ubuntu, they get the following error: (more…)
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…)
If you have been using a Linux distribution, you might have encountered filesystems errors somehow. Filesystems can be identified as a hierarchy of directories (or a directory tree) which determines the way files (more…)
Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo is the latest version of Ubuntu. It was released on April 18th 2019 hence the name 19.04. This new installment in Ubuntu comes with a few major improvements. In this article, we will (more…)
