A while ago, we summarized all the possible ways to mount Google drive locally as a virtual file system and access the files stored in the google drive from your Linux operating system. Today, we...
This brief tutorial explains how we can adjust monitor brightness from command line in Unix-like operating systems. Adjusting screen brightness in GUI mode is easy. We already have reviewed a Brightness Controller GUI app which...
Finding your Laptop battery status in GUI mode is easy. You could easily tell the battery level by hovering the mouse pointer over the battery indicator icon in the task/top bar. But, how about from...
I always backup the configuration files or any old files to somewhere in my hard disk before edit or modify them, so I can restore them from the backup if I accidentally did something wrong....
When it comes to monitor running processes in Unix-like systems, the most commonly used applications are top and htop, which is an enhanced version of top. My personal favorite is htop. However, the developers are...
As we all know, the ping command is used to check if a target host is reachable or not. Using Ping command, we can send ICMP Echo request to our target host, and verify whether...
A while ago, we have written about a CLI news client named InstantNews that helps you to read news and latest headlines from commandline instantly. Today, I stumbled upon a similar utility named Clinews which...
Installing the same set of packages on multiple Ubuntu systems is time consuming and boring task. You don’t want to spend your time to install the same packages over and over on multiple systems. When...
I use Oracle VirtualBox to test various Unix-like operating systems. Most of my VMs are headless servers that does not have graphical desktop environment. For a long time, I have been wondering how can we...
Autotrash is a command line utility to automatically purge old trashed files. It will purge files that have been in the trash for more then a given number of days. You don’t need to empty...
