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Beginners Guide for Who Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Who Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to use the who command to find all the logged-in user information (with practical examples).
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December 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Beginners Guide for Who Command in Linux
5 Ways to Follow (or Find All) Symbolic Links in Linux
5 Ways to Follow (or Find All) Symbolic Links in Linux
In this article, you will learn five ways to follow symbolic (or soft) links to find the original file to which the symbolic link points.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
5 Ways to Follow (or Find All) Symbolic Links in Linux
Beginners Guide for Ping Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Ping Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to use the ping command with its available options, including the explanation of output and ping flooding.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Beginners Guide for Ping Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Hash Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Hash Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn what the hash list is, the differences between it and the history list, and how to use its command-line tool to manage records in the hash list in Linux.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Beginners Guide for Hash Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Type Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Type Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn everything about the type command, including its different options (with practical examples).
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December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Beginners Guide for Type Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Time Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Time Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to use the time command to determine the execution time of a command or shell script taken by your system or server in Linux.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Beginners Guide for Time Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Sleep Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Sleep Command in Linux
In this article, you will learn about the sleep command with its different suffixes and how to use it in shell scripts to pause the execution for a certain period of time.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Beginners Guide for Sleep Command in Linux
How To Disable Directory Listing From the Command Line in Linux
How To Disable Directory Listing From the Command Line in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to disable the directory content listing from the command line in Linux.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
How To Disable Directory Listing From the Command Line in Linux
Beginners Guide for Rename Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Rename Command in Linux
In Linux, the rename command is an amazing utility that allows you to rename single or multiple files at once, based on a set of rules or regular expressions you specify.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Beginners Guide for Rename Command in Linux
Linux Vipw and Vigr Commands Explained
Linux Vipw and Vigr Commands Explained
In this article, you will learn about the vipw and vigr commands that let you safely edit the configuration files related to users or groups in your favorite text editor.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Linux Vipw and Vigr Commands Explained
How to Backup and Restore Linux Command History
How to Backup and Restore Linux Command History
In this article, you will learn how to view, backup, and restore the Linux command history on a Linux system, so stick with it till the end to learn everything.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
How to Backup and Restore Linux Command History
Display and Filter History Records Based on Date and Time in Linux
Display and Filter History Records Based on Date and Time in Linux
In this article, you will learn how to add date and time to the history record and how to list previously executed commands based on their date and time in Linux.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Display and Filter History Records Based on Date and Time in Linux
How to Find the Most Used Commands in Your Linux System
How to Find the Most Used Commands in Your Linux System
In this article, you will learn how to list the most and least executed commands in your Linux system to find your favorite tool.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
How to Find the Most Used Commands in Your Linux System
Beginners Guide for Watch Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Watch Command in Linux
The watch command is used to monitor the changes in the command output over a certain interval of time that can also be manually adjusted.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Beginners Guide for Watch Command in Linux
A Tale of "More" and "Less" Commands in Linux
A Tale of "More" and "Less" Commands in Linux
In this article, you will learn to read large files effectively using either the more or less command and find their huge difference.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A Tale of "More" and "Less" Commands in Linux
Beginners Guide for Touch Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Touch Command in Linux
The touch command is used to create new files, change the file access time and file modification time, replicate another file's timestamp, and much more.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Beginners Guide for Touch Command in Linux
3 Ways to Change User's Login Shell in Linux
3 Ways to Change User's Login Shell in Linux
In this article, you will learn three ways to change a user's login shell in a Linux system using the usermod, chsh, and vim or nano commands.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:31 AM
3 Ways to Change User's Login Shell in Linux
Listing All the Available Shells in Your Linux System
Listing All the Available Shells in Your Linux System
In this article, you will learn different ways to list all the available shells in your Linux system, including shells associated with specific users, your own default login shell, and many more.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Listing All the Available Shells in Your Linux System
Beginners Guide for Read Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Read Command in Linux
The read command is a built-in Linux utility that allows shell script writers to take single line input from the keyboard or from the file descriptor and store it in a variable.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Beginners Guide for Read Command in Linux
How to Use Here Document (HereDoc) in Linux Shell Script
How to Use Here Document (HereDoc) in Linux Shell Script
In Bash and also for other implementations of the shell, like zsh and fish, you can use the HereDoc to redirect a multi-line or block of lines from the script as an input to interactive commands.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
How to Use Here Document (HereDoc) in Linux Shell Script
Beginners Guide for Unset Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Unset Command in Linux
The unset command is a built-in Linux command used for flushing the value of variables or functions during program execution.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Beginners Guide for Unset Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Set Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Set Command in Linux
The set command is a built-in Linux command that can display or modify the value of shell attributes and positional parameters inside the current shell environment.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Beginners Guide for Set Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Export Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for Export Command in Linux
The export command is used to create environment variables or update variable values in the current shell session by newly forked child processes without starting a new shell session.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Beginners Guide for Export Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for PS Command in Linux
Beginners Guide for PS Command in Linux
The PS is a native command-line utility for UNIX-based systems that monitors the currently running processes in your system.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Beginners Guide for PS Command in Linux
How to Count String Occurrences in a Text File
How to Count String Occurrences in a Text File
In this article, you will learn to count the number of string occurrences in a text file using the grep, wc, and tr commands, including the VIM text editor.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
How to Count String Occurrences in a Text File