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How to Use Pipes to Combine Command Line Commands

Many of the commands available on a Linux command line can feel a little bit basic in their functionality.

Installing and Using bottom on Linux

Bottom is a terminal-based graphical dashboard for system monitoring. It comes with a range of customization options and display features that set it apart from other system monitoring dashboards.

Installing and Using gtop on Linux

Gtop is a system monitoring dashboard for your terminal, with a rich graphical display. In this guide, you learn more about gtop and how it compares to the Linux utilities, top and htop.

Installing and Using HTTPie on Linux

HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client built for modern web APIs. It provides intuitive commands and a user-friendly interface.

Installing and Using the broot Command

The broot command provides a modern approach to generating directory trees on the Linux command line.

Installing and Using the curlie Command on Linux

Curlie is a frontend to the ubiquitous command-line HTTP client cURL. With curlie, you get all of the features and versatility of cURL with a modern and user-friendly interface similar to the HTTP client, HTTPie.

Install and Configure the Streamlink Twitch GUI

Streamlink allows you to watch your favorite Twitch streams using the most popular media players on Linux and macOS.

Installing and Using the Linux bat Command

The bat command is a clone of the ubiquitous cat command. It modernizes cat with a more readable design and features like syntax highlighting and a Git integration.

How to Install Streamlink CLI on Ubuntu and macOS

Streamlink lets you watch any stream inside your favorite media players such as VLC, MPlayer, and QuickTime.

Use chroot for Testing on Ubuntu

The Linux chroot command enables you to run applications or shells within a separate, secure environment.

Install and Use FFmpeg on Linux

FFMpeg is a free and open-source utility that is used for video and audio processing.

What Is Vi?

You may have heard of the text editor Vi, and probably also its relative Vim. But what is Vi, and why do many users on Unix systems continue to use it?

Run Jobs or Scripts Using Crontab on Boot

The cron utility is a job-scheduling tool found on all Linux and Unix operating systems, as well as macOS.

How to Install and Configure Supervisor on CentOS 8

Supervisor is a process control system based on the client/server model. It can be used to simplify process management by providing a centralized location for process control.

How to Navigate Emacs using Evil Mode

A Vi/m Layer Makes Emacs Evil Emacs is an endlessly versatile text editor. Every aspect can be customized, and new features can be added both globally and within specific modes.

How to Divide Files with split

What is split? split is a Unix command-line utility similar to grep or tail. It allows you to divide a larger file into several smaller files.

Faster File Navigation with autojump

What is autojump? autojump is a command line utility similar to cd. It helps speeds up file navigation by maintaining a history of directories that have been previously navigated by the user.

How to Install NeoVim and Plugins with vim-plug

What is NeoVim?

How to Use Midnight Commander, a Visual File Manager

Introduction For beginners, managing files on their Linux servers from the command line can be intimidating, time-consuming, and sometimes even risky.

Introduction To Vim Customization

What Is Vim?

Load Testing Web Servers with Siege

Siege is an HTTP load testing and benchmarking utility that can be used to measure the performance of a web server when under duress.

How to Use Nano Text Editor Commands in Linux

GNU nano is a popular command-line text editor that is included in most Linux distributions. The interface is comparable to GUI-based text editors, which makes nano a popular choice for those who find vi or emacs commands non-intuitive.

Manipulate Lists with sort and uniq

What are sort and uniq?

Use killall and kill Commands to Stop Processes on Linux

killall is a tool for terminating running processes on your system based on name. In contrast, kill terminates processes based on Process ID number (PID).

View and Follow the End of Text Files with tail

What is tail?

Download Resources from the Command Line with wget

What is wget?

Find Files in Linux Using the Command Line

When you have to find a file in Linux, it’s sometimes not as easy as finding a file in another operating system.

View the Beginning of Text Files with head

The head command is a core Linux utility used to view the very beginning of a text file.

Create File System Links with ln

The ln command creates links which point to other objects in the file system.

How to Use the Date Command in Linux

The date command displays the current date and time. It can also be used to display or calculate a date in a format you specify.

Manipulate Text from the Command Line with sed

The traditional Unix utility sed makes it possible to manipulate strings and streams of text from the command line without using a text editing application.

Modify File Permissions with chmod

Modify File Permissions with chmod The chmod command allows users to change read and write permissions in Unix systems.

How to Grep for Text in Files

Grep is a command-line utility that can search and filter text using a common regular expression syntax.

Synchronize Files with Unison

Unison is a file synchronization tool that allows users to maintain two instances of a given file set on two systems up to date and identical.

Archiving and Compressing files with GNU Tar and GNU Zip

tar and gzip provide a standard interface for creating archives and compressing files on Linux systems.

Limiting Access with SFTP Jails on Debian and Ubuntu

As the system administrator for your Linode, you may want to give your users the ability to securely upload files to your server.

Schedule Tasks with Cron

What is Cron? Cron is a classic utility found on Linux and UNIX systems for running tasks at pre-determined times or intervals.

Introduction to rsync

Rsync is a command line utility which synchronizes files and folders from one location to another.

Using the Terminal

The shell, also known as the “command line interface” or “CLI”", is the primary method for interacting with remote Linux servers.

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