Posted on Tue 04 June 2019 in Linux • Tagged with Scripting, Shell
Ever wanted to automate a task on your *nix machine? Or are you fed up executing some set of commands again and again? If yes, then shell scripting can help you out there. In this tutorial, introduce yourself to shell scripting, along with some hands-on examples to practice.
While you start using IRC, it becomes very essential to do certain tasks. To ensure yours tasks are carried out smoothly, you must know the commands which may come handy. So, today we've compiled here a list of IRC Commands that would come handy doing different tasks in IRC.
Changing …
Posted on Mon 09 April 2018 in Linux • Tagged with Encryption, SSH
Secured communication is inevitably a required norm in the world. To achieve the same, different methods are being approached. You must have heard the word "cryptography", which is really useful to safely transmit your signals by ensuring secrecy. Today, with advancements in this field, we have 2 of its widely …
Posted on Tue 03 April 2018 in Linux • Tagged with Bash, CLI, Fish, Linux, ohmyfish, Shell, Terminal, zsh
Tired of using Bash terminal? Struggling with shell scripting. Want to try something better, easier to customize, configure. Fish is a simple, powerful yet user-friendly command-line shell giving you features that you have never heard of such as auto-suggestions, cleaner more organized scripts, web-based configuration/ customizations and a lot more …
Posted on Wed 14 March 2018 in Linux • Tagged with Encryption, File Transfer, SCP
Hello readers! Transferring data to your friends' machine is not a big deal when using storage devices such as pen drives, CDs, etc. But have you ever intended to migrate files between different systems over a network, to a machine that's out of your reach, like transferring data between an …
Posted on Fri 26 January 2018 in Linux
What happens when your hard disk fries, or eventually you want to get a new machine? You tend up to loose all your dev configuration after years of hard work tweaking things here and there according to your liking.
Configuring a dev machine according to your liking would've been a …
Posted on Thu 11 September 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Boot, Linux
Ever wondered, what happens behind the scenes to boot Linux? Knowing about what happens from the time you press the power button to the time when you get the login screen on Linux, i.e. boot process in Linux is very important. It can come very handy when you're debugging …
Posted on Wed 02 April 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Git, Version Control
Git is the most popular version control system now a days. The reason behind popularity is its simple yet tremendous functionality. Unlike other VCSs (Version Control Systems), Git has some unique ways to control and share your data. Because of its huge functionality it also tends to become a lot …
Posted on Tue 18 March 2014 in Linux • Tagged with Automation, Chef, Chef Solo, Python
Chef is an amazing configuration management tool, widely used in a lot of industries. If you are not familiar with how to run chef/chef-solo, please go through this article first. One of the best feature of Chef is it’s collection of resources. Resources allows Chef to handle configuration …
Posted on Tue 11 March 2014 in Linux • Tagged with APT, Linux, Ubuntu
This is last & final chapter of this tutorial. Before proceeding further, I would like to link first two parts here just incase you haven't checked it out.
Continuing from Part-2,
19) Checking The Stats Of Cache Using APT-CACHE :
This command will display all the statistics of the cache …