The Linux xargs command may not be a hugely popular command line tool, but this doesn’t take away the fact that it’s extremely useful, especially when…

Linux command line offers several tools for checking and verifying a file’s integrity. One such tool is sha1sum, which we will be discussing here in…

We have already discussed the gzip command in Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress or expand files. To uncompress, the command offers a…

Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you might want to take a quick look at a few initial lines of a file….

Sometimes, while working on the command line in Linux, you might want to quickly take a look at the total available as well as used…

In Linux, there’s a concept of users (those who use the system), and then there’s the concept of groups, which is basically a logical mechanism…

In Linux, there’s a concept of users (those who use the system), and then there’s the concept of groups, which is basically a logical mechanism…

The command line is one of the most powerful features of Linux. There exists a sea of Linux command line tools, allowing you to do…

Sometimes you may find yourself in a situation where-in the requirement is to format the contents of a text file. For example, the text file…