How To Check The Runlevel In Linux
A runlevel is one of the modes that a Unix-based operating system will run in. In Linux Kernel, there are 7 runlevels exists, starting from 0 to 6. The system can be booted into only one runlevel at...
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dtrx – The Universal Archive Extractor For Many Archive Types
The dtrx tool is an universal archive extractor for many archive types. dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction”. It is a free, open source archive extraction tool. You don’t need to have multiple extraction tools...
How To Monitor File Changes Using fswatch In Linux
Fswatch is a free, open source multi-platform file change monitor utility that notifies us when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified or changed. Using fswatch, we can easily monitor the changes...
How To Exclude Specific Directories From Copying In Linux
A while ago, we discussed how to exclude certain size files from copying using rsync in Unix-like systems. That method helped us to exclude the big sized files or less important files in order to complete...
ppl – A Command Line Address book For Linux
A while ago, we have reviewed a command line tool called “GooBook” which is used to access google contacts from the command line. Using GooBook, you can access and view all Gmail contacts. Today, we...
AURdroid – An Android App To Browse Arch User Repository (AUR)
Howdy Arch Linux users! I’ve got an exciting news for you all. Today, I have stumbled upon an useful Android app that helps you to browse the AUR from your Android devices. As you may already...
How To Check If A Linux System Is 32 bit Or 64 Bit
We already knew how to check if a Linux system is physical or virtual machine. Now, it is time to find out if the installed Linux OS is either 32 bit or 64 bit. If...
How To Check If A Linux System Is Physical Or Virtual Machine
As a Linux administrator, sometimes, you might be wondering whether you are working on a physical or virtual machine. Most of the time, you will be accessing and managing your servers remotely. You will not...
How To Automatically Update Running Docker Containers
Watchtower is a free, open source application that allows you to monitor the running Docker containers and updates them automatically when it finds any changes in their base images. When watchtower finds that a running...
Streamlink – Watch Online Video Streams From Command Line
Streamlink is a command line streaming utility that allows you to watch online video streams in popular media players, such as VLC, MPlayer, MPlayer2, MPC-HC, mpv, Daum Pot Player, QuickTime, and OMXPlayer etc. It is written...
