One of the most popular software enabling computers to be controlled remotely is TeamViewer, but there are many other options that are available as well, which have just as many features (more…)
In this short article, we will see how to empty buffers and cache on a Linux/Ubuntu system. (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…)
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…)
