3 Useful Tips on How to Use History Command in Linux
You must aware of using the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the list of executed commands in your Bash history, but do you realize that there’s plenty more to Bash history than
Linux Tips & Tricks
How to Run Multiple Linux Commands in One Single Command
If you use Linux daily, you will know that the command line is the most powerful tool when you working with files, installing and configuring system software, and running them. It becomes even more efficient
Rsync Show Progress Bar When Copying Files in Linux
Rsync is a powerful utility to backup and synchronizes your files and directories. You can see Rsync mainly used as a backup solution to snapshot your files and directories. Rsync does an incremental backup, meaning
How to Find Files Containing Specific Text String in Linux
Almost all file managers for Linux like Nemo and Thunar by default provide an option to search for files. But if you want to search for a string inside a file’s content using file manager,
How to Create 100% CPU Load on Linux System
To ensure that your Linux machine is stable and reliable, you need to stress test and benchmark certain key aspects of it including CPU performance. This helps you foresee how it will respond in real-world
How to Use Declare Command in Linux Bash Shell
In this article, we will be looking at what is the use of the declare command in bash and how to use it. A declare is a bash built-in command that provides type-like behavior for
How to Remove Lines from a File Using Sed Command
streaming editor (sed) is an important tool when you work with parsing and transforming text in your nix-based systems. It is used for finding, filtering, text substitution, and text manipulations such as insertion, deletion, replace,
How to Install Software from Source in Linux
The most widely used Linux distributions, for example, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, and many more, have a packaging system for distribution software. Binaries and configuration files of software are bundled in a package, which is
How to Set or Change Hostname in Linux
The hostname is the name of the machine using which it is identified on a network. It can be anything from a single word string to a complex name. Each hostname has a corresponding numerical
How to Exclude Specific File Extension While Copying Files Recursively
As you might already know, ‘cp’ is the command line program in Linux to copy files and directories. The simple and most common use of ‘cp’ is as follows: $ cp file1 file2 file3… fileN