How To Benchmark Linux Commands And Programs From Commandline
A while ago, I have written a guide about the alternatives to ‘top’, the command line utility. Some of the users asked me which one among those tools is best and on what basis (like...
Category: Opensource
McFly – A Replacement To ‘Ctrl+R’ Bash History Search Feature
If you spend a lot of time on CLI mode, you should definitely used or heard about reverse search function in BASH. The keyboard shortcut to do reverse search in Bash is Ctrl+r. Using bash...
Some Alternatives To ‘top’ Command line Utility You Might Want To Know
Every now and then, I see a lot of open source programs, tools, and utilities are being added to GitHub and GitLab by developers across the world. Some of those programs are new and some...
Buttercup – A Free, Secure And Cross-platform Password Manager
In this modern Internet era, you will surely have multiple accounts on lot of websites. It could be a personal or official mail account, social or professional network account, GitHub account, and ecommerce account etc....
Some Good Alternatives To ‘du’ Command
As you may already know, the “du” command is used to compute and summarize the file and directory space usage in Unix-like systems. If you are a heavy user of du command, you will find...
How To Analyze And Explore The Contents Of Docker Images
As you may already know, a Docker container image is a lightweight, standalone, executable package of software that has everything required to run an application. That’s why container images are often used by developers for...
DF-SHOW – A Terminal File Manager Based On An Old DOS Application
If you have worked on good-old MS-DOS, you might have used or heard about DF-EDIT. The DF-EDIT, stands for Directory File Editor, is an obscure DOS file manager, originally written by Larry Kroeker for MS-DOS...
Ultimate Plumber – Writing Linux Pipes With Instant Live Preview
As you may already know, Pipe command is used to send the output of one command/program/process to another command/program/process for further processing in Unix-like operating systems. Using the Pipe command, we can combine two or...
How To Upgrade Ubuntu With A Single Command
Upgrading Ubuntu is very easy! Even a novice user can easily upgrade Ubuntu from one version to another in the first attempt itself. That’s why I always recommended Ubuntu for newbies who wants to try...
Install Kali Linux Tools Using Katoolin In Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
This tutorial walk you through installing Kali Linux Tools using Katoolin in Ubuntu. For those who don’t know, Katoolin is a Python script which is used to install all Kali Linux tools at once or...
Chrony – An Alternative NTP Client And Server For Unix-like Systems
In this tutorial, we will be discussing how to install and configure Chrony, an alternative NTP client and server for Unix-like systems. Chrony can synchronise the system clock faster with better time accuracy and it...
How To Browse And Read Entire Arch Wiki As Linux Man Pages
A while ago, I wrote a guide that described how to browse the Arch Wiki from your Terminal using a command line script named arch-wiki-cli. Using this script, anyone can easily navigate through entire Arch...
