The Linux Compendium
In Linux distributions, each document that is created on the system is provided with some timestamps. Each document must store the information about the last access time, the last modification time, and the last modification time. So all the timestamp information is updated when you create, access or modify a file. The “touch” command is … Read more
If you have already worked with vim editor, gvim is a similar tool but it has a graphical user interface. In this small article, I am going to show you the method of installing gvim editor on Debian version 11 using its terminal. Before you actually start the installation, open up the terminal and run … Read more
The top command in Linux lets you monitor running processes and the system resources they use. As a system administrator, it can be the most useful tool in your toolbox, especially if you know how to use it. The top utility is pre-installed on all Linux distributions. With this interactive command, you can specify how … Read more
The Vim editor can be described as a text editor for programmers. It is upward compatible with the Vi editor and can be used to write and edit simple files and programs. Besides the many extensions it offers, the Vim editor can also be used to password protect your text files. In this article, we … Read more
Sometimes we need to unzip multiple zipped and rar’ed files at once, all in a single folder. In the Ubuntu user interface, this is pretty easy: you just have to select all the files you want to unzip, right-click on them and use the Extract option to unzip them all. Things get really difficult when … Read more
Vim is a short form of Vi IMproved. It is an open-source and free tool with a command-line interface and a Graphical User Interface. This article will show you how to install vim editor on Debian 11 using the terminal. To get started, you need to open up a terminal with root privileges and update … Read more
Podman is a free and open-source daemon-less container engine that was developed by RedHat. It exists to help developers manage and deploy their applications in a Linux environment. Similar to the Kubernetes platform, Podman works with pods. Podman seeks to be the alternative to the Docker engine which is also a containerization platform. Podman improves … Read more
This guide shows you how to retrieve system details of your Debian 11 or Debian 10 system, e.g. kernel name, kernel release, kernel version, hostname, hardware architecture, processor type, hardware platform and operating system information. This guide was tested with Debian 10, but the commands shown here also work with other Linux distributions. How to … Read more
The DNS or the Domain Name Server can be characterized as one of the most essential parts of your link to the internet. The DNS translates the domain names to and from the IP addresses so that we don’t need to remember or keep a list of all the IP addresses of the websites we … Read more
Most Ubuntu systems use bash or dash as their default terminal application. You type your commands at a standard command prompt, which usually displays your username, hostname, and current directory in a predefined color scheme. Bash provides many customization options for the command prompt that allow you to not only add different functions to the … Read more