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[How To]: Identify Currently Running Linux Distribution Using LSB Command #CLI
lsb_release “Linux Standard Base“ is a simple command line tool allows you to show more information such as “distribution code name, distribution ID, distribution release number, and distribution description” about currently used linux distribution.
Command Line | Change The Owner Of Files And Folders | chown
chown is a Unix/Linux command for changing files and folders ownership.chown become really handy if you want to change the owner for many files or folders using the command line.
Command Line | du Disk Usage Commands | Tips
du is a disk usage command allows you to easily know file and directory sizes, also you can view file and directory sizes decreasing starting by biggest file, otherwise increasing by smallest file.
Command Line | Superuser Privileges Commands ” su & sudo “
Become a superuser or having administrations privileges through command line is mostly used daily to install extra applications, modifying files require a superuser, access to certain applications or changing password for currently available users by authenticating root user. So here we will take a look at most daily used administration privileges.
System Monitor/Kill Current processes Using ps Command Line #CLI
Here’s another way to check your currently running process using command line and “kill or force quit” not responding applications instead of using any graphical user interface for system monitors to check current process.
Fluxbox 1.3 Released | What’s new | Compile Fluxbox
Fluxbox is a great lightweight X window manager based on Blackbox 0.61.1 built using C++. Fluxbox has a simple friendly user-interface quite easy to use for any user, and does not require a high machine performance to use it. Been a long time since last Fluxbox stable release from two years, finally Fluxbox 1.3 has been released today with quite a few new features we will take a look at along with installation methods for Fluxbox 1.3.
Download/Upload Files From/to File Sharing Websites Using command line Plowshare #CLI
Plowshare is command line applications helps you to download files from many file sharing websites, and upload files as well. I really liked the idea of downloading from file sharing websites using terminal without opening the web browser or seeing any of these pop-up advertising on many of those file sharing websites.
Command Line | Easily Switch Between Directories Using pushd and popd commands
pushd and popd commands become handy sometimes and make access to directories really quickly many times You can use pushd and popd commands in case you want to save a directory and want to get back to it later using popd. down there you will find a quick tutorial showing instructions for using pushd and popd commands, also i will type same instructions in this post.
Command Line | Compare File To Another Using cmp
cmp command become really handy to quickly check if 2 files are identical or what are the differences between these files in bytes number and which are the lines has any differences between both files.
35 Terminal ( text ) based application for Linux
Terminal based application , which are minimalist apps running through your terminal … some people don’t like the fancy rich GUI and prefer simple text-based UI to use …they are old school geeks . Most of the apps in this post are very old and you may recognize them as revolutionary projects such as Vi . This list if for people who are new into Linux world and they wanna try something new ” old school stuff ” …
Command Line | System Informations
It’s really important to know your machine hardware and software specifications to be able to install suitable packages for your machine, also if you had a problem that will help you to easily diagnose the problem. So here will show few command lines will help you to know your mahcine hardware specifications and software too.
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