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Termshot - Take Image Screenshot of Command Line Output
In this article, I'll show you how to turn a command line output in Linux into an image using Termshot. Termshot is Linux tool which turns a cli command's output into a screenshot including colors and...
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How to Exclude Specific Packages from Yum Update
In this article, we'll show you how to exclude specific packages from updating using Yum package manager. Periodically, you may want to update your CentOS or RHEL system but leave out certain packages...
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How to Remind Unplug a Charging Laptop on Arch Linux
You are always worried about over-charging your laptop when too busy on projects that you can't keep checking battery percentage?. It is always recommended to keep battery power between 40% and 80% to...
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How to Remove Orphaned Packages on Ubuntu
On Linux systems, the installation of some packages depends on others packages or libraries in order to work properly. For example, if you want to install a package named "mypackage", you need to its...
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How to List Installed Packages by Size on CentOS/Fedora/Arch Linux
Sometimes, you may need to keep track of your system's hard drive space especially if it's a cloud instance that's hosted on Amazon EC2, Linode, Digital Ocean or on your physical server. You may be...
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How to Show Installed Package Size on Ubuntu/Debian
In this guide, I'll take you through the steps to show installed package size on Ubuntu/Debian Linux systems. This can be important when doing space audit trying to find packages using occupying large...
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How to Install and Use Pacaur on Arch Linux
In this guide, we're going to look at the installation and usage of Pacaur on Arch Linux. Pacaur is an AUR helper which aims at minimizing user prompts and interactions. It works with both official...
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2 Ways to Limit CPU Usage of a Process in Linux
While administering your Linux system you need to limit the CPU usage of a process because it can consume more CPU usage and affects the performance of the whole system. This tutorial I will show how...
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How to Install Latest Chrome and Run from Terminal on Ubuntu
In this guide, I'm going to show you how to Install Latest Chrome and Run it from Terminal on Ubuntu. This setup is based Ubuntu 16.04 but should work fine with any version of Ubuntu. It will cover...
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How to Use Truncate Command in Linux
Welcome to our guide on how to use Truncate Command in Linux. The Linux truncate command is often used to shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size. The final size of the file...
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netctl - Setup Wifi and Static IP on Arch Linux
This guide will concentrate on how to setup wifi on Arch Linux using netctl command line tool. Netctl is a CLI-based tool used to configure and manage network connections via profiles on Arch Linux....
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fkill - Interactive Tool to Kill Processes in Linux
In this guide, I'll demonstrate how you can use fkill-cli to easily kill a process on Linux. fkill-cli is a command line tool written in Nodejs which makes process management on Linux, macOS, and...
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How to Enable or Disable Services in Ubuntu Systemd/Upstart
Often, there is a need to enable or disable services temporarily or permanently on our Ubuntu system. Sometimes, we may require certain services to start up automatically on boot up e.g ssh or web...
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How to Recover Deleted File Using ext3grep on Ubuntu
Sometimes, especially on the command line, it happens that you delete a file or directory unintentionally. Ext3grep is a solution to recover deleted files. Ext3grep fetches information from the file...
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How to Split Large Text File into Smaller Files in Linux
Linux has several utilities for breaking down large files into small files. Split and csplit are two of the popular commands which are used for this purpose. These utilities will help to break down big...
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How to Check Execution Time of a Process in Linux
Have you been wondering how you can find an execution time of a process in Linux or Unix system?. This guide will show you a number of tools which comes in handy when trying to find execution time of a...
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Dutree – Command Line Disk Usage Analysis Tool on Linux
DUtree is a combination of Durep and Tree. Durep creates disk usage reports with graphs which allows us to identify which directories are using the most space. Although durep can produce text output...
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How to Create and Remove alias in Linux
Aliases are very useful when it comes to fast working in Linux. We can use alias to run a long or hard remember command with a simple word. There are two types of aliases – temporary and permanent. In...
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How to Upgrade Individual Packages in Ubuntu/CentOS
In this article, we'll dive deep and see how we can upgrade specific packages in Ubuntu/CentOS distributions. Once in a while, you may be required to upgrade certain packages and leave others in their...
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How to Install and Use Netdata Monitoring Tool on Linux
Netdata is a distributed, near real-time, scalable & performance and health monitoring solution for Linux, FreeBSD and MacOS. Yes! It is open-source too. It has been developed in such a way that it...
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