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.
7-Zip is free software for compressing/decompressing files. Although you can already compress files by using the tar and zip commands, 7-Zip can outperform other compression technologies in terms of compression ratio, as shown in our benchmark tests for the best compression tool in Linux. 7-Zip can also encrypt your compressed archives with AES-256. In this …
Images that contain Exif metadata may reveal when and where a photo was taken and with what device, among other things. While this is usually a desirable feature, it can also be a privacy concern if the images are going to be shared or published online. Exif data also helps inflate file size. In this …
The commands you type into your Linux terminal are always logged somewhere. You may have noticed that you can press the up arrow on your keyboard to retrieve commands you’ve executed in the past. This is a convenient feature when you need to recall a past command, but can also be a potential privacy concern. …
In this tutorial, you will see how to create a new user in Linux from command line and GUI. Add User From Command Line To create a user in Linux you can either use adduser or useradd. The main difference between these two commands is that adduser is more user-friendly, whereas the useradd command is …
This tutorial will explore several methods to print a directory tree from the command line on Linux. The commands covered below are tree, find, ls, and du, which can all output a directory tree in Linux. Linux tree Command The single best tool to view a directory tree is the tree command. This is mainly …
There are a few different ways to check a system’s external IP address from the Linux command line. Check out some of the methods below to retrieve your public IP address using Linux commands. Retrieve External IP Address in Command Line Method 1. Use the dig command to see your IP address from different name …
The WebP image format is great at compressing photos to incredibly small file sizes. This makes it an ideal format for images on websites, just as its name would imply. Outside of web hosting, the PNG image format is much more popular and better suited to archiving. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to convert …
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You can access all your Windows PC’s files in WSL by mounting hard drives, flash drives, and other removable disks. In this guide, we’ll see how to mount our file systems in Windows Subsystem for Linux in order to access our files, as well as how to automate the process. Accessing C: Drive WSL will …
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The neofetch command in Linux will output system information, distribution information, and an ASCII logo of the distro in terminal. The command is often seen in screenshots from users that wish to show off their system specs or the Linux distribution they’re using. In this guide, you’ll see how to install Neofetch on Linux, and …
Finding files based on their size can help you figure out which files are taking up the most space on your hard drive. Whether you need to free up storage, or just want to see which files are largest, there are plenty of Linux commands that can help. In this guide, we’ll go over the …
