Htop is very interactive, gives you additional information about running processes, and allows for manipulations such as sorting the list of processes using various criteria and search for a process/kill processes. While top command takes few seconds delay to collect data where htop is much faster. In this tutorial, I will show you how to … Read more
ifconfig is a command-line utility to view network interfaces attached to Linux machines and network information such as IP address(es), netmask, etc.. assigned to network interfaces. Also, it displays the count of sent and received network packets along with counts of error and dropped packets. Do you get ‘Ifconfig‘ Command Not Found in your RHEL … Read more
The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful package management system used by Red Hat Linux and its derivatives such as CentOS and Fedora. RPM also refers to the rpm command and .rpm file format. The official CentOS repositories contain thousands of RPM packages that can be installed using the yum or dmf; command-line utility. … Read more
The FSCK is a system utility. It is a tool that is used to check the consistency of a file system in the Unix-like operating systems. It is a tool that will check and repair inconsistencies in Unix-like systems including Linux. The tool can be used with the help of ‘fsck’ command in Linux. This … Read more
Linux Operating System comes with kill command to terminate a process. The command makes it possible to continue running the server without the need to reboot after a major change/update. Here comes the great power of Linux and this is one of the reasons, why Linux is running on 90% of servers, on the planet. … Read more
Pip (recursive acronym for “Pip Installs Packages” or “Pip Installs Python“) is the package management system for Python, used to install and manage software packages written in Python. Pip is the similar tool like the bundle, npm, composer in another programming language. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Python Pip on … Read more
Rsync (Remote Sync) is a most commonly used command for copying and synchronizing files and directories remotely as well as locally in Linux/Unix systems. It provides fast incremental file transfer by transferring only the differences between the source and the destination. Rsync can be used for mirroring data, incremental backups, copying files between systems and … Read more
APT also known as Advanced Packaging Tool is the command-line tool for managing packages in Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian 8, Debian 9 and much more. It combines the most frequently used commands from the apt-get and apt-cache tools with different default values of some options. APT simplifies the process of installing, … Read more
If you are a Linux newbie, and have interest in system administration, or you want to become a power user, then you need to have a solid knowledge of the command line. There are several commands that you should know about, and one of them is uptime. This command returns set of values that involve, … Read more
The grep command which stands for “global regular expression print” is one of the most powerful and commonly used commands in Linux. Grep searches one or more input files for lines that match a given pattern and writes each matching line to standard output. If no files are specified, grep reads from the standard input … Read more