Articles marked as Linux Commands center around the Linux command line, and using it to accomplish a particular task.
Linux Nightly believes that the command line is the most powerful feature of this operating system. In these guides, we’ll help you master essential Linux commands.
Every file and directory on your Linux system has permissions assigned to it. These permissions are what determines which users are allowed to read, write to, and/or execute the file. In this tutorial, you will learn about how to change Linux file permissions with the chmod command. Changing File Permissions – Symbolic Mode There are …
Let’s talk about compression. As a Linux user, you’re probably already familiar with longtime staples like gzip, bzip2, and xz. They’ve been around for a while, and most everyone has at least stumbled across them by now, if they’re not actively using them on a regular basis. As if there weren’t enough already, there’s a …
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to check the content of a file on Linux with various commands. cat Command Example 1. You can see all contents of a file by using the cat command. $ cat file_name Example 2. If you want to see the number of rows in a file, you can …
In this tutorial, we will learn five different ways to create a new file on Ubuntu from both command line and GUI. Creating a new file with nano nano is a very minimalistic and user-friendly text editor that allows us to create new files and edit existent ones. To install this tool on Ubuntu you …
Bash is the default shell on the vast majority of Linux systems. A shell is what you interact with in the command line terminal, and it interprets your commands. But there are many other shells (interpreters) available, and they all work a bit differently. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the shell …
A performance test will put load on your Linux machine and stress test components like the CPU, memory, and hard drive. The stress Linux command is an ideal utility to put load on a computer and push your hardware to its limits. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and use the stress …
pip is the package installer for Python. On Linux, pip allows for easy installation of Python programs and dependencies. For Python developers, pip is an essential tool. In the context of Kali Linux, pip is mostly used for hacking scripts or to download dependencies that hacking scripts rely on. Even if you don’t write Python …
In this tutorial, we will learn how to update the system time and time zone on Ubuntu Linux. This can be done from the command line terminal with the timedatectl command to synchronize your system’s time with official time servers. Update System Time To update the system time in Ubuntu, you can use the timedatectl …
wget is a command line tool created by the GNU Proyect and is used for downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. In this article, we will look at some useful commands that can be used with wget to download files from the web. Downloading a File To download a file with wget, simply specify the …
dnf is a package management tool used for RPM-based Linux distributions like Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and others. In this article, we will show the useful dnf commands that allow us to list installed packages. Listing Installed Packages Example 1. List all installed packages with dnf command: $ dnf list installed Example …
