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Copy a File to Multiple Directories on Linux 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to copy a file to multiple directories on Linux. The commands will work on any POSIX shell, including bash. 2. To A Single Directory We can use the cp command to copy files to… Continue Reading copy-file-to-multiple-directories
Linux Commands – Find Broken Symlinks 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll see how to find broken symlinks using the find command in different forms. 2. Symlinks Symlinks, symbolic links, or even soft links are files that point to other links, files, directories, and resources. They are similar to shortcuts… Continue Reading find-broken-symlinks
Append Lines to a File in Linux 1. Introduction In this tutorial, we’re going to explore several ways to append one or more lines to a file in Linux using Bash commands. First, we’ll examine the most common commands like echo, printf, and cat. Second, we’ll take a look at… Continue Reading file-append-lines
Splitting Files in Unix Systems 1. Introduction In this short tutorial, we’ll take a look at a few different ways we can split files in Unix systems. All of these commands were tested in Bash, but are platform-independent. 2. Using split One of the most common ways of splitting files… Continue Reading split-files
Silencing the Output of a Bash Command 1. Overview In this quick tutorial, we’ll focus on how to silence the output of a Bash command. 2. Prerequisites Before silencing the output, we first need to understand how Bash handles output when executing a command. 2.1. Standard Output & Error When… Continue Reading silencing-bash-output
Creating Symbolic and Hard Links with Linux Commands 1. Overview On a Linux machine, we can create links to an existing file. A link in Unix can be thought of as a pointer or a reference to a file. In other words, they’re more of a shortcut to access a… Continue Reading symbolic-and-hard-links
A Guide to Yum and Apt 1. Overview Package Managers are a great feature of every Linux system. They allow us to easily handle the installation, removal, and inspection of software packages. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use two among the most famous ones: YUM and APT. 2.… Continue Reading yum-and-apt
Linux Commands – top 1. Overview It’s quite common to find ourselves in a situation where we need to know the resource usage of each process and thread in our system. For example, we might want to know which process is slowing down our system. In this tutorial, we’ll look… Continue Reading top-command
Guide to the Linux find Command 1. Introduction The Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find(Unix)[find]_ command can be used to find files and directories on a disk. It provides several command-line options that make it a powerful tool. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to use the find command. 2. Syntax Let’s quickly… Continue Reading find-command
Difference Between sort | uniq and sort -u 1. Overview In this tutorial, we’ll do a quick comparison of the Linux commands sort | uniq and sort -u. Both use sort to remove duplicate entries from a list, but they operate in slightly different manners. Note that all commands below are platform-independent. 2.… Continue Reading sort-uniq-vs-sort-u
