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...
Category: Unix/Linux Beginners
Nix – A Powerful Package Manager For Linux And Unix
A while ago, we have written about Linuxbrew, a common package manager for Linux and Mac OS X. The distinguishing feature of Linuxbrew is that you can install packages without root or sudo privilege. Today,...
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 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...
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...
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...
How To Install FFmpeg In Linux
In this guide, let me show you how to install FFmpeg on various Linux distributions. For those who don’t know, FFmpeg is one of the best multimedia framework that can be used to encode, decode,...
How To Take Screenshots From Command Line Using “Scrot” In Linux
There is a saying – “A picture is worth a thousand words”. True! A Picture speaks louder than words. Be it a documentation work, technical writing, blogging or any sort of writing jobs, screenshots are...
5 Ways To Repeat Your Last Command In Linux
Howdy! Today, I will be teaching you how to repeat your last command in Linux. That means you don’t have to re-type the previously executed command in your Shell. You can, of course, use the...
