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Gzip is a popular compression algorithm and tool used to compress files to reduce file sizes? The gzip compression is very popular in Linux and Unix-based operating systems and distributions. The gzip files generally have the *.gz or *.z extension. In this tutorial, we explain how to extract or unzip the gzip files by using … Read more
Dockerfile is used to configure docker images and specify commands to be executed before the image creation. Dockerfile contains instructions to read by the docker engine and executed properly. Even the Dockerfile may contain a lot of commands, configuration, etc. which should be explained and described for later use. Comments can be added into a … Read more
Linux Bash Shell Script Comments can be used to add some information about the script of specific command or line in a script file. Comments are not interpreted as a shell script command. Single line or multiline comments can be created in a shell script. Bash Shell Script Singleline Comment The hash mark (#) is … Read more
Bash comments are used to provide descriptions and explanations for the bash script. Bash comments can be used to add description and explanation for a variable, function, code block, or for the complete script. Comments can be used later used to understand the bash script and related code blocks easily and make changes or updates … Read more
Linux mkdir command is used to create directories. The mkdir command creates directories that don’t exist. But in some cases, the directory may already exist where we do not want to create or recreate the directory. You may ask how can I accomplish this if the directory exists does not run mkdir command? Directory Existince … Read more
Linux sleep command is used to sleep the current process for the specified time. The sleep command delays the execution for a fixed amount of time. The sleep command is very similar to the wait command. The sleep command can be used with the delay amount which can be specified as seconds, minutes, hours, and … Read more
The mkdir command is used to create folders or directories in the Linux operating system. By default, one-level directories or folders can be created and child folders cannot be created with a single command. But to make things easier and faster the mkdir command provides the -p option in order to create multiple parent and … Read more
Linux bash provides a lot of useful commands where the sort command is one of them. As its name suggests the sort command is used to sort different content from a file, command, device in different ways. The default behavior of the sort command is sorting provided content from a to Z in ASCII format. … Read more
Cron Job is used to execute and run different applications, scripts, commands, and tasks at the specified time and intervals in Linux distributions. List and Display Current User Cron Jobs with crontab Command The crontab is the official command in order to manage cron jobs. The crontab command can be also used to list and … Read more
The “error command gcc failed with exit status 1” error is a very common error that is mainly related to the GCC compilation and required libraries. This error text is longer than this. The remaining part expresses the specific application name or libraries. In this tutorial, we examine how to find the error cause and … Read more