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This article won’t need to be all that long but it might be complicated as we discuss how to avoid storing commonly used commands in your Bash history. Yes, it’s a long title. This is also a bit contrary. It is one of those things that is easier done than said. It’s a very wordy … Continue reading “Avoid Storing Commonly Used Commands In Your Bash History”
Today’s article is going to be quick and easy as we simply discuss how you create a new user. This is a fairly basic task and shouldn’t take too long to cover. If you want to create a new user, read on! If it’s not obvious, you have a user account. You use this information … Continue reading “Create A New User”
I’ve used the grep command many times but haven’t written an article to learn about grep. It seems like a good idea to do so so I can reference this article. That’s something that’s considered a good thing. The thing is, I’ve tried to write this article before and it just came out terrible. That … Continue reading “Let’s Learn About Grep”
We sure do have a lot of file management articles and this is another one that will help you find files created on a specific date. This is a relatively easy task and you won’t even have to install anything new. If you want to find files created on a specific date, you might as … Continue reading “Find Files Created On A Specific Date”
Today’s article is short because there’s no reason to make it longer and we’ll just show file creation, modification, and access times. This is just a simple process and won’t take all that much to learn. It shouldn’t take too long to explain. Files contain metadata. This can be everything from the GPS location of … Continue reading “Short: Show File Creation, Modification, and Access Times”
I don’t know how handy today’s article is going to be in reality but it’s sort of possible to crack a PDF password. Once you read the article, you’ll see why I said “sort of possible”. The odds of success will vary greatly. Everybody knows what a PDF file is. It’s a Portable Document Format. … Continue reading “How To: Crack A PDF Password”
There’s always time for a basic article or two and today we’ll do that as we just play around with the du command in Linux. This is a functional tool and one you can learn to use in just a few minutes. Because of that, I’ll try to keep the article reasonably short. Storage… On … Continue reading “The du Command In Linux”
Today’s article won’t be all that long or complicated because we’re just going to show your USB devices in the Linux terminal. This is something easily done and not something too unusual. You never know when you’ll want to show your USB devices, but this is your chance to do so. We have covered the … Continue reading “Show Your USB Devices In The Linux Terminal”
This shouldn’t be a very long (or complicated) article as we’re simply going to cover one way to generate a process tree. This is more useful than it may sound, especially in process management. We’ll be doing this in distros that support apt. So, that’d be distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary, and many … Continue reading “Generate A Process Tree”
If you’ve ever had issues with your wireless connection, and many of us have, you might have wanted to monitor wireless link quality. This is a good task for an article, so let’s learn together one way to monitor wireless link quality. This will be a pretty easy article to follow. You need a wireless … Continue reading “Monitor Wireless Link Quality”
