How To Exclude Certain Size Files From Copying In Linux
A few days ago, I explained how to backup your entire Linux system using Rsync utility. One problem I have encountered during the backup process was some large size files took a long time to...
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How To Check Disk Space Usage In Linux Using Ncdu
Today, we will be discussing how to check disk space usage in Unix-like systems using Ncdu utility. Ncdu, acronym of NCurses Disk Usage, is a curses-based version of the well-known ‘du’ command. It provides a fast...
How To Backup Your Entire Linux System Using Rsync
The other day I wanted to reinstall one of my virtual machine which was running with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server. Before reinstalling it, I tried to backup the entire system. While searching for an easiest...
How To Suspend A Process And Resume It Later In Linux
Let us say you run a program. But, you didn’t know how long it will take to finish. The process keeps running several minutes. You don’t want to wait that much longer. Because, some other...
Auto Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend, Hibernate Your Linux System At A Specific Time
We have already learned how to automatically wake up your Linux system from sleep or hibernation mode. It was quite useful when you don’t want your system to function all day. You can simply put...
Automatically Wake Up Your Linux System From Sleep Or Hibernation Mode
Today, we will be discussing an useful topic that describes how to automatically wake up your Linux system from sleep or hibernation mode using ‘Rtcwake’ utility. The rtcwake is used to enter a Linux system sleep...
Terminal Velocity – A CLI Note-taking Application For Linux
A few days ago, we have written about Task Warrior, a command line TODO task manager which is used to manage your tasks, daily chores effectively from command line. The task Warrior is like a...
How To Add Linux Commands To The Queue And Execute Them One By One
Today, I stumbled upon a cool Linux command line utility called “Task Spooler”. As the name says, Task spooler is a Unix batch system that can be used to add the Linux commands to the...
UnixBench – A Benchmark Suite For Unix-like Systems
A while ago, We have reviewed Phoronix, an open source testing and benchmarking platform. In this guide, we will see yet another benchmarking suite called UnixBench. It is the original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite, updated and revised...
How To Monitor The Progress Of Data Through A Pipe Using ‘pv’ Command
Picture this scenario. You are trying to copy a large file from one directory to another or one system to another through command line. As you probably know, you will not see any indication of...
