In my previous stone on Terminal tricks using sed, I had included simple sed one-liners to carry out some amazing text editing tasks. The beauty of sed command is more accentuated when used in scripts.A combination of two or more commands with sed can result in effective scripts. You can either create a bash file or make an alias. Alias allows you to define ‘shortcuts’ to shell commands. Usage :   alias newcommand=’yourcommand -arguments’ For e.g. [...]

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 ) [...]

Searching in UNIX command-line can be a very frustrating task. Often we forget the path where we had saved our files or we have no idea where our files have been downloaded or saved.  In these situations the “find” command can be a life-saver. Continuing with our stone of the VIM Navigation, I have focused on the ‘find’ command in this stone. This command is an extremely handy tool for programmers in shell scripting and [...]

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 [...]

1.  Everything in Linux is a file including the hardware and even the directories. 2. # : Denotes the super(root) user 3.  $ : Denotes the normal user 4.  /root: Denotes the super user’s directory /home: Denotes the normal user’s directory. 5.  Switching between Terminals §  Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6: Console login §  Ctrl + Alt + F7: GUI login 6.  The Magic Tab: Instead of typing the whole filename if the unique pattern [...]

If you have been using any of the Linux distributions or intend to, you must be aware of the terminologies related to it. Therefore, with an objective to familiarize you with the new terms or the terms that you have heard of, I have tried my best to compile these 40 basic terminologies related to Linux. Alien Alien is a computer program that supports conversion between different Linux package formats. For example, it helps conversion [...]