Linux Commands for Linux Beginners
Configuration syntax checking and/or testing is a key step to perform after making changes to an application’s or service’s configuration file or even after running updates. This helps to reduce the chances of the
In Linux, every single file is associated with timestamps, and every file stores the information of last access time, last modification time, and last change time. So, whenever we create a new file, and
This article shows you several practical examples on how to perform various backup operations of MySQL/MariaDB databases using the mysqldump command and also we will see how to restore them with the help of
By default, every command that you execute on your terminal is stored by the shell (command interpreter) in a certain file called a history file or shell command history. In Bash (the most popular
For one reason or the other, you may wish to run a command repeatedly for several times in Linux. This guide will discuss some of the common and effective ways to achieve just that.
The su command is a special Linux command that allows you to run a command as another user and group. It also allows you to switch to the root account (if run without any
This topic might seem a bit peculiar. I mean, why should you convert your home directory into a separate partition? Whenever you are installing Linux, the installer already selects the ‘guided‘ partitioning by default.
In this article we are going to review some of the useful and frequently used Linux or Unix commands for Linux System Administrators that are used in their daily life. This is not complete
In this article, we are going to review the wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Wget is a free command-line
In this article, we are going to review and see how we can schedule and run tasks in the background automatically at regular intervals using the Crontab command. Dealing with a frequent job manually