Linux is an open-source operating system (OS). An operating system is software that directly manages a system’s hardware and resources, like CPU, memory, and storage. The OS sits between applications and hardware and makes the connections between all of your software and the physical resources that do the work. Here, at https://blog.eduguru.in, We will discuss and solve real-life problems coming on Linux OS. We also know more interesting features of Linux here.
tcpdump: Linux Network Sniffer Tool tcpdump is a most powerful and widely used command-line packets sniffer or package analyzer tool which is used to capture or filter TCP/IP packets that are received or transferred over a network on a specific interface. It is available under most of the Linux/Unix-based operating systems. tcpdump also gives us an option to save captured … Read more
nmcli – Linux command nmcli, the network manager command-line interface is a nifty and easy to use tool that saves you lots of time when you need to configure an IP address. To display all the active network interfaces on your Linux system execute the command. $ nmcli connection show OR $ nmcli con show Note that con is … Read more
find command in Linux The find command in UNIX or Linux is one of the most important and frequently used command. It’s a command-line utility for walking a file hierarchy. It can be used to find files and directories and perform subsequent operations on them. It supports searching by file, folder, name, creation date, modification date, owner, and … Read more
dirname Command dirname is mostly used in situations where you need to strip the last component from an absolute file name. used to remove the trailing forward slashes “/” from the NAME and prints the remaining portion. If the argument NAME does not contain the forward-slash “/” then it simply prints dot “.”. Example: # dirname /home/example/foo/ output: /home/example # dirname foo/file.txt output: foo … Read more
pipe (|) operator in Linux command Let’s Start understanding from the below example: $ ifconfig | grep 192 inet 192.168.1.96 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 Introduction to pipe (|) One of the most powerful shell operators is the pipe (|). The pipe takes the output from one command and uses it as input for another. And, … Read more
Understanding Hard link in Linux The concept of a hard link is the most basic thing and here we will discuss it today. Every file on the Linux filesystem starts with a single hard link. What is the hard link? The link is between the filename and the actual data stored on the filesystem. Creating an additional … Read more
What is a symbolic link, soft link, or symlink A symbolic link (also known as a soft link or symlink) consists of a special type of file that references another file or directory. Unix/Linux-like operating systems often use symbolic links. Here we will see how to use the ln command to create symbolic/soft links. There … Read more
Rsync example: automated backup at home This script just creates a daily backup of Satya work in a ~satya/backup/ directory so he can retrieve any version from the last week. The last line does the rsync of her directory across the modem link to the host samba. Note that I am using the -C option … Read more
Microsoft Windows vs. Linux File System Which Operating system you like most and why? Share your opinion here https://discuss.eduguru.in/poll/which-operating-system-you-like-most/ Microsoft Windows files are stored on different data drives (C: D: E:). On Linux, beginning with the root directory, files are organized in a tree structure. This directory is the beginning of the file system. It … Read more
How to Install Steam on Ubuntu (Easy) Steam is available to install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and later from Ubuntu Software or through the command line apt programme. Click to Install Steam on Ubuntu If you’d rather do all of the above using the command line just run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository multiverse sudo … Read more