Everything you type in the terminal is stored in the shell history. Learn how to use command history in Linux in this introduction to history command.
Quick tutorial to show you how to find the biggest files on your Linux machine using a few commands that you may already be familiar with du, sort, and head.
The type command tells you whether a Linux command is built-in shell command, where is its executable located and whether it is aliased to some other command. Here’s how to use the type command in Linux.
Tar is one of the most common tool used for archiving files in Linux. Learn how to create a tarball and how to extract it in the bginner’s tutorial.
Ulimit is a built-in shell command designed to display, allocate, and limit resources. Learn how to use the ulimit command in Linux.
Cat command output flooding your terminal screen? Learn to use more command in Linux to view large text files.
You see an s instead of x in the file permissions? Linux has some special file permissions called SUID, GUID and Sticky Bit. Know more about them.
The time command in Linux measures how long a particular command or script runs. Learn how to use this command.
The top command provides a quick look at system resources and processes. You can also control it to use it as the task manager in Linux terminal.