The Linux Compendium
We, the regular Ubuntu users, know that a new release of Ubuntu is made available after every 6 months. Whenever we want to move to a new version, we also want to transport our installed software, PPAs, apt-cache packages, and application settings & configurations with us. Moving to a new version without taking all this … Read more
As a Ubuntu user, you would agree how powerful and rich is the set of commands that you can use to access and manipulate files. In this tutorial, we will explore one such command, the Linux stat command. This command, when used with a file name, gives the following useful information about the file: Size … Read more
RoR or Ruby on Rails is an open source, cross-platform web development framework that provides a structure to the developers for their code. It helps them create applications and websites by abstracting and simplifying the repetitive tasks faced during development. It is called Ruby on Rails because Rails is written in the Ruby programming language, … Read more
What is VT and why is it required? The Virtualization Technology enables your processor to act as a number of independent computer systems. This enables several operating systems to be running on the same machine at the same time. Whenever you want to install virtualization applications on your Ubuntu system such as VMware Workstation, VirtualBox … Read more
When I recently shifted to Ubuntu 18.04, I noticed that there was no option in the right-click menu of Nautilus to create an empty text file. Of course, I could use the command line to quickly create a new document or even use the Text Editor to create a new file, but that is not … Read more
Python is an object-oriented, interpreted, high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum and was first released in 1991. It reduces the cost of program maintenance with its easy to learn syntax and high user readability. It encourages program modularity and thus code reuse by supporting modules and packages based programming concept. The Python interpreter … Read more
At times we need to encrypt highly confidential data on our systems in a way that no other person using our system can tell that we have hidden any information. One way of doing this is hiding files and secret messages inside other existing files such as images and audio. This is also pretty helpful … Read more
As an Ubuntu system Administrator, you might want to know since when the system is running. This is especially helpful if you want to troubleshoot power or scheduling related problems. Although there are many open-source applications that you can install and use for this purpose, the Ubuntu ‘uptime’ command is the simplest to use and … Read more
When we view the contents of a Directory in Ubuntu, they are listed on the basis of the file and folder names. Sometimes, we need to sort the contents of the directory to make the list more informative for us. For example, in order to view which file/folder is taking more space on your system, … Read more
What is grep? The grep utility that we will be getting a hold of today is a Unix tool that belongs to the same family as the egrep and fgrep utilities. These are all Unix tools designed for performing the repetitive searching task on your files and text. You can search for files and their … Read more