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...
Finding disk space usage is no big deal in Unix-like operating systems. We have a built-in command named du that can be used to calculate and summarize the disk space usage in minutes. And, we...
YouTube being a Google product, obviously has a full featured Android app. But there are a lot of third party clients that allow you to go beyond what the official app allows. One such client...
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...
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...
Capturing screenshots is part of my job. I have been using Deepin-screenshot tool for taking screenshots. It’s a simple, light-weight and quite neat screenshot tool. It comes with all options such as mart window identification,...
The issue of security of correspondence and the personal data protection has always been relevant, attracting more and more groups of people from a wide range of different IT activities. In order to create the...
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...
When it comes to schedule tasks in Linux, which utility comes to your mind first? Yeah, you guessed it right. Cron! The cron utility helps you to schedule commands/tasks at specific time in Unix-like operating...
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,...
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...
A couple days ago, we discussed how to switch between multiple PHP versions. In that method, we used ‘update-alternatives’ command to switch from one PHP version to another. That means, the update-alternatives commands helps you...
