Switching between applications running in the background in your current tty is no longer a problem with this tutorial. Here’s a quick tutorial for how to retrieve jobs to the foreground of your current environment. Continue reading
Choosing a highly secure password for your email accounts, social networks, wireless networks and any other applications or websites requires a password became a challenge. So, when you choose a password, think about the possibility of cracking it and how long it will take to crack your password. In this post we will have a look at some tips for choosing a secure and strong passwords as much as possible, and we will check a CLI tool for Linux/Unix will helps you to generate a secure passwords in case you can’t figure one out. Continue reading
Trimage is a quite good tool allows you to easily compress PNG and JPG files with slightly effect on the image quality. It can be used with the graphical user interface to ease selecting the required files to compress, also you can use the command line, which I prefer to use instead of the GUI. Let’s check the download options and some examples of how to use the command line and the GUI for Trimage. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading