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...
This tutorial will help you to easily limit network bandwidth and shape your network traffic in Unix-like operating systems. By limiting the network bandwidth usage, you can save unnecessary bandwidth consumption’s by applications, such as...
If you ever wanted to try some good-old MS-DOS games and defunct C++ compilers like Turbo C++ in Linux? Good! This tutorial will teach you how to run MS-DOS games and programs under Linux environment...
As a content writer, I needed to add images in my articles. Sometimes, it is better to add videos or gif images to explain the concept a bit easier. The readers can easily understand the...
Few months ago, I had setup LAMP stack in Ubuntu 18.04 server. Today, I tried to login as root user in my database server, but I completely forgot the password. After couple Google searches and...
In Unix-like systems, we use ‘cat’ command to print and concatenate files. Using cat command, we can print the contents of a file to the standard output, concatenate several files into the target file, and...
This brief guide describes how to switch between TTYs without function keys in Unix-like operating systems. Before going further, we will see what TTY is. As mentioned in an answer in AskUbuntu forum, the word...
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,...
If you’re using any latest Ubuntu server edition, you might have noticed some promotional links in welcome message which are not relevant to Ubuntu server platform. As you might already know MOTD, abbreviation of Message...
My 4-years-old niece is a curious-kid. She loves “Avatar” movie very much. When the Avatar movie is on, she became so focused and her eyes are glued to the screen. But the problem is she...
Recording Terminal sessions may help in several cases. You can use those recording sessions to document everything that you did in Terminal and save them for future reference. You can use them to demonstrate different...
