Linux Commands

Linux distrinutions are primarily user either rpm or deb for their packages. This articles discusses uses of dpkg and rpm

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is command line utility which has a better and easier to use interface compared to the basic command 'du'

एक ग्न्यू/लिनक्स यूजर/एडमिनिस्ट्रेटर होते हुए आपको कभी ना कभी कमांड लाइन पर काम करना ही पड़ेगा । ग्न्यू/लिनक्स सिस्टम में सैकड़ों कमांड होती है । कभी ना कभी आपको इन कमांड की बारे में अधिक जानकारी की आवश्यकता पड़ेगी। या फिर कभी आपको यह पता लगाने की आवश्यकता होती है कि जो काम आप करना चाहते हैं उसके लिए कोई कमांड उपलब्ध है क्या।

As an administrator/user of GNU/Linux you will be working on the command line one or the other time. There are hundreds of commands available in the system and each command has multiple options. Once in a while we need help on these command or sometime we need to find out if there is a command to do something which we want to get done.

As an administrator or GNU/Linux enthusiast you might come across a requirement of logging information from you shell scripts into files whenever they are run.  We would love to do this if the files created have a unique name and also give out information when it was created.

In this post we will see how we can achieve that.

ग्न्यू/लिनक्स एडमिनिस्ट्रेटर होते हुए आपको कभी ना कभी शेल स्क्रिप्ट के जरिए फाइल बनाने की आवश्यकता पड़ेगी इस फाइल का नाम यूनिक होना चाहिए और इसी फाइल में शेल स्क्रिप्ट से आप इंफॉर्मेशन कैसे लिखेंगे ।आइए इस पोस्ट में देखें।

Some or the other time as a sys admin you will come across a need to add multiple users to your Linux system. So the question is how to do the same.

Let us see how we can do the same in this post.

We will assume that N number of users are to be added with a standard prefix or suffix and values incrementing with numbers. e.g.  employee27... emp28.. etc

The command to add a user is useradd

The command can be simply run as:

With CD/DVD drives almost gone from our systems, the easiest way today to install a new system is via a USB pen drive. This article guides you how to create a bootable pen drive of a Linux ISO image, so that you are able to boot and install from the same.