Today, I was testing the latest Arch Linux live ISO in VirtualBox. Before installing Arch Linux on disk, I booted into the live system and wanted to try some applications to see how it performs...
We all know about GNU core utilities that comes pre-installed with all Unix-like operating systems. These are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system. The GNU core utilities contains the commands,...
Today, a friend of mine asked me how to clear Firefox browser’s cache from command line. He already knew how to do it in graphical way. However, he was just curious to know how to...
The other day I was trying to figure out if there is any easy way to find or list the dependencies of a package in Linux. I have been using Linux as my primary OS...
Today, I was testing Nginx web server in a CentOS 7 VM. In the middle of the update process, the power has gone. Since I don’t have any UPS, my host system went down immediately....
There are several popular remote desktop sharing programs (such as Teamviewer, Guacamole, and TigerVNC etc) you can use when you need to share your screen to your coworkers or friends. These programs are used to...
This brief tutorial explains a few different ways to find the package that provides a specific file in Unix-like operating systems. This could be useful when you manually compile and install a package. When you’re...
We all know that Pacman, the default package manager for Arch Linux and its derivatives, will store all downloaded packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ folder. And, we also know that it will not delete old or uninstalled packages automatically....
I have an old system sitting idle in my room. I wanted to make use of it for something useful. After a few google searches, I came to a decision to setup a secure file...
As you already know, we can create a directory using “mkdir” command in Unix-like systems. Using mkdir command, we can easily create a single or group of directories at a time. It is also possible...
I am always curious to know small interesting things about Linux. Today, this question popped out in my mind. How long have I been using my Arch Linux OS? I have no idea when I...
Today, we will be discussing about an useful application called “filemanager”. It provides a file managing interface within a specified directory or you can assign your own directory. You can use it as the way you...
