Duc is a collection of tools that can be used to index, inspect and visualize disk usage on Unix-like operating systems. Don’t think of it as a simple CLI tool that merely displays a fancy...
The “ls” command is the most commonly used command to list files and directories in a directory in Unix-like systems. However, there are other ways to list directory contents without using ls command. As you...
JSON is a lightweight and language independent data storage format, easy to integrate with most programming languages and also easy to understand by humans, of course when properly formatted. The word JSON stands for JavaScript...
One of the common task we do after installing a Linux system is network configuration. Of course, you can configure network interfaces during the installation time. But, some of you might prefer to do it...
Have you ever been in a situation where you want to SSH to a remote server and immediately cd into a directory and continue work interactively? You’re on the right track! This brief tutorial describes...
The other day I was transferring a large file using rsync to another system on my local area network. Since it is very big file, It took around 20 minutes to complete. I don’t want...
The other day I was testing how to add a regular user to sudo group and remove the given privileges to make him as a normal user again on Ubuntu. While testing, I removed my...
As you know already, the user can perform any administrative tasks with sudo privileges on Ubuntu systems. When creating a new users on your Linux box, they can’t do any administrative tasks until you make...
I had a script on my Ubuntu system deployed on AWS. The primary purpose of this script is to check if a specific service is running at regular interval (every one minute to be precise)...
The other day I was wondering how can I move (not copy) multiple file types from directory to another. I already knew how to find and copy certain type of files from one directory to...
