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Keep Your Clock Sync with Internet Time Servers in Ubuntu 18.04

Sync system time by NTP on Ubuntu

It is best practice to keep your clock synchronized with the internet according to your specified time zone unless there is a need to alter system time manually. This article describes ways through the command line and the graphical user

Karim Buzdar September 4, 2018September 4, 2018 Desktop, Shell, Ubuntu Read more

How to Create Aliases for Customizing Commands in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Command Aliases

Ubuntu allows you to customize your long and rugged bash commands by using short and pleasant aliases as a replacement. When you are working on the command line, you can just use an alias instead of the entire command you

Karim Buzdar August 29, 2018August 29, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

Commenting Out/Uncommenting a Line in Ubuntu Configuration File

Comment or uncomment line in config file

Linux, like all operating systems, keeps initial/default settings and configuration parameters for its programs in the form of configuration files. These files are used to configure software applications, server processes and OS settings for your system. As Linux administrators, you

Karim Buzdar August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

3 Ways to Find PC’s Hostname Using Linux Terminal

Get Linux hostname

Just as Internet Protocol address or IP address gives an identification to your device, similarly, the hostname is another parameter through which you can recognize your device. It is a string of human understandable characters. Unlike IP address, hostname of

Karim Buzdar August 24, 2018August 24, 2018 Linux, Shell, Ubuntu Read more

How to Make Password Asterisks Visible in Ubuntu Terminal

Make password asterisks visible in Ubuntu

Whenever you are asked to type a password in Ubuntu terminal, you insert your password without getting any visual display or a feedback from the screen. In such a situation, there are the chances that you may mess up with

Karim Buzdar August 23, 2018August 23, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

Copying and Pasting Text onto the Linux Terminal

Copy and paste text to Linux terminal

While working with the Terminal, we sometimes require copying a long command, file name or text from the web, a tutorial, or simply from some text file. You might have observed that the simple pasting control, Ctrl+V does not work

Karim Buzdar August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

How to Use htop to Monitor System Processes in Ubuntu 18.04

Monitor processes in Ubuntu with htop command

Most of the people are familiar with the use of Task Manager in Windows. It is a feature that is mainly used to view the currently running processes. Similarly, Ubuntu also provides us with a utility to monitor the system

Karim Buzdar August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

How to Create a Dummy Zombie Process in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Create dummy zombie process in Ubuntu

As software testers, we sometimes need to know how a zombie process looks like on our system. We can run various tests on it if we know specifically which program and process ID is associated with that zombie process. What

Karim Buzdar August 15, 2018 Shell, Ubuntu Read more

8 Ways To Get Help On The Linux Shell

8 ways to get help on the Linux shell

Whenever we start using a new software or a new operating system, the interface and the environment with which we are used to also changes. Sometimes, the new environment is user-friendly and we do not find it difficult to interact

Karim Buzdar August 7, 2018August 15, 2018 CentOS, Debian, Linux, Shell, Ubuntu Read more

Working With Vi Editor in Linux

Working With Vi Editor in Linux

What is vi Editor Vi or the Visual Editor is the default text editor that comes with most Linux systems. It is a Terminal-based text editor that users need to learn, essentially when more user-friendly text editors are not available

Karim Buzdar July 25, 2018August 15, 2018 Shell Read more
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