If you are into the world of Linux or thinking of trying it out, you will most probably stumble upon apt. Due to the increase trend of people shifting to Debian distribution, apt now has become a must know tool. In fact, apt-get will make your life so easy in Linux that you will stop worrying about how to install and remove software on the Debian GNU/Linux distributions. So what’s apt? APT or Advanced Package [...]

This article is a continuation of our previous stone – 40 Basic Command Line Tips and Tricks. The terminal is a really powerful tool when it comes to Linux, anything and almost everything on Linux can be done via the command line. Therefore it is necessary for us to have a basic idea of all the important commands and a few really important options that come along with them. 1. BASH ( Bourne-Again SHell ) [...]

It is often said that there is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Most of the time we spend a lot of effort trying to a complete a task which in fact can be accomplished by a single stroke in the command line. For instance, to remove all the empty files in a graphical environment, you have to go through the search options, select the files and finally delete [...]

Linux has more than 650 commands and every command has its own set of options all performing different operations. Going through each and every one of these commands will be a very tedious task. However limiting yourself to only a few of them is never an option. The trick here to learning all these commands, is to categorise them according to their function. By doing this, you will know atleast the basic commands and have [...]