Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, CentOS Tutorials
Linux and its distributions provide the groups in order to manage and organize users. The most popular use case for the Linux groups is setting read, write, and execute privileges of the files and directories according to the group. By using Linux groups a file can be shared with the other group users by setting … Read more
Linux commands and executables heavily rely on shared libraries where a single shared library is generally used by multiple commands or executables even by other libraries. A shared library is a file that contains binary code in order to run Linux commands and executables properly. The shared means that the library can be used by … Read more
Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali, etc. use the deb packages and apt-get for package management. One of the most used package management commands is “sudo apt-get update”. If you are using a newer version the “sudo apt update” command is used. But what does the “sudo apt-get update” comman do? What Does “sudo … Read more
Linux bash is like a programming or scripting language that provides similar structures to the programming languages like C#, PHP, Python, C, etc. The while loop also provided by the Linux bash which is simply used to iterate over multiple items which can be numbers, files, folders, users, etc. Bash While Loop Syntax The bash … Read more
Linux files and directories have access to privileges or rights in order to allow or prevent different users. These permissions consist of reading, write, and execute in basic. There are also some extra permissions. The umask is the expression of these permissions in numerical or symbolic format and also the command which can be used … Read more
A symbolic link is a file that redirects into another file or folder. Symbolic links also called shortcuts in Windows operating system. Symbolic links provide the ability to put a single file or directory into multiple locations without copying. Symbolic links do not contain actual data where only provides a link to the actual data … Read more
The bash echo command is used to print some text into the terminal or command-line interface. The echo command print specified text or variables in different ways. But in some cases, we may want to print a new line with the echo command. New Line In Bash Before trying to print a new line in … Read more
Ubuntu and Debian use the apt repositories in order to download and install packages. Apt repositories provide the *.deb packages with their metadata information. Ubuntu and Debian provide official Apt repositories with a lot of packages. But in some cases 3rd party apt repositories can be used to install different software packages. The add-apt-repository command … Read more
Linux is a file-based operating system that contains a lot of files. Linux generally prefers simple text files for configuration and different purposes for its simplicity and ease to read and write. But how can I count lines in Linux? What Is Line In Linux? A file consists of some data which can be a … Read more
Directories or folders can contain multiple files and directories. These multiple files and directories use some disk space and have a size. But when we list the files and directories we see that the directory size is listed as 4096 bytes or 4KB. This is the directory standard size which does not contain the files … Read more