Environment Variables are some special variables that are defined in shell and are needed by programs while execution. They can be system defined or user defined. System defined variables are those which are set by…
Usually, we are in habit of saving a lot of information in form of files on our system. Some, hidden files, some kept in a separate folder created for our ease of understanding, while some…
You have a lot of images, and want to optimize and compress the images without losing its original quality before uploading them to any cloud or local storages? There are plenty of GUI applications available…
APT means Advanced Packaging Tool is another package manager found on Linux based systems. Initially designed as a front-end for dpkg to work with .deb packages, apt has succeeded to show his visibility on Mac…
Package Manager is software which allows a user in case of installation of new software, up-gradation of system, or updating any specific software and such sorts of things. In case of Linux based systems wherein…
Hi fellow Linux readers, I’m bringing you yet another great article from our Linux Tips and Tricks series, this time we will be using two lesser known Linux utilities that you should must know about….
A Partition is a space carved out from a physical disk which can be used to either install an Operating System or just act as a storage space for Users files and other data. Each…
The tar utility is one of the utilities that you can use to create a backup on a Linux system. It includes many options that one can use to specify the task to achieve. Extract…
In this tutorial, I am going to take your through steps you can use to delete a user’s account together with his/her home directory on a Linux system. Delete User Accounts with Home Directory in…
People who use Linux often think that it doesn’t require defragmentation. This is a common misunderstanding across Linux users. Actually, the Linux operating system does support defragmentation. The point of the defragmentation is to improve…
In this guide we are going to look at how to use a script and scriptreplay commands in Linux that can help you to record commands and their output printed on your terminal during a…
Adapting to using the command line or terminal can be very hard for beginners who want to learn Linux. Because the terminal gives more control over a Linux system than GUIs programs, one has to…
I remember when I first started using Linux and I was used to the graphical interface of Windows, I truly hated the Linux terminal. Back then I was finding the commands hard to remember and…
As I’m sure you already know, there are plenty of ways to install software in Linux: using the package management system provided by your distribution (aptitude, yum, or zypper, to name a few examples), compiling…
Let’s assume that you have 30GB of movies and you have 3 drives each 20 GB in size. So how will you store? Obviously you can split your videos in two or three different volumes…
Very recently I have written a post on fdupes utility which is used to find and replace duplicate files in Linux. This post was very much liked by our readers. If you have not gone…
Here again, I have compiled a list of four things under Linux Tips and Tricks series you may do to remain more productive and entertained with Linux Environment. Linux Tips and Tricks Series The topics…
It is a common requirement to find and replace duplicate files for most of the computer users. Finding and removing duplicate files is a tiresome job that demands time and patience. Finding duplicate files can…