When working with the Linux command line, there are situations where you need to type large paths. Even if you use the bash shell's autocomplete feature, this is a time-consuming process. But do you know that there are times when you can get away with entering a path only once (even if it has to ... Read more
If you have a directory with many files (a few thousand in my case) and need to know which one is the newest, then the following command might be useful. It returns the name and details of the newest file in a directory where it is executed: ls -tl | sed -n 2p
Sometimes you might want to download an entire website e.g. to archive it or read it offline. This tutorial will show you which application can be used on Windows and Linux. I will use the tool wget here, which's a command-line program that is available for Windows, Linux, and MAC. Install wget on Windows First, download and ... Read more
Running a nightly backup script on a server system, such as a web hosting server, can result in a heavy load and longer latency for other processes, for example, HTML or .php pages load slowly during the backup because the backup script requires too many I/O or CPU resources. On Linux systems, two shell utilities ... Read more
In this short article, I explain how to disable IPv6 in the Debian 10 network stack. Why would one want to do this? Most likely if you have connection problems and cannot reach servers on the Internet from your Debian system using IPv6, while it works using IPv4. Disabling IPv6 should always be the last ... Read more
The following command can be used to check and repair all MySQL databases on a Ubuntu or Debian Linux System. I've tested the commands on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10. Repair MySQL databases on Ubuntu Linux sudo mysqlcheck --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf --auto-repair --optimize --all-databases MySQL database repair on Debian mysqlcheck --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf --auto-repair --optimize --all-databases The benefit of ... Read more
JPEG is a lossy compression file format for digital images. It can greatly reduce the amount of storage space used by a graphics file compared to the PNG format. This tutorial describes how to convert a PNG file to JPG on the shell. I use the GraphicsMagick command-line tool on my Ubuntu 20.04 system to ... Read more
The ps command in Linux, as you might already know, is one of the most frequently used command-line tools. For the uninitiated, the utility basically reports a snapshot of the current processes on the system. The ps command provides a plethora of options, and as you might agree, it's not possible to know about or ... Read more
When you get the error message "system-config-firewall: command not found" on your CentOS Server while trying to configure the firewall on the shell, then the text interface version of the firewall configuration utility is missing. Install CentOS Firewall configuration tool Install it with this command: yum install system-config-firewall-tui
The current status of a Linux software raid is written to the virtual file /proc/mdstat. You can view the status on the shell easily with the cat command: cat /proc/mdstat The output will look similar to this: Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md2 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] 726266432 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 ... Read more