In this tutorial, we’ll go over the chown command in Linux. The Linux operating system is designed to be secure and allows file access to only those users who have the required permissions. Each file has specific owners and only…
The time command in Linux is used to determine how long a given command will take to run. We use the time command to test the performance of scripts and commands. What’s the Need for the time Command in Linux?…
In this tutorial, we’ll be going over the Linux watch command and how we can utilize it in our Linux administration work. Essentially, the watch command is a utility that allows us to continually execute a command at specific intervals…
Most of the Linux Distributions don’t allow ‘root’ user also known as superuser by default as a security measure to prevent accidental or intentional changes that could harm the system. Especially in an enterprise setup, this would mean disaster. Instead,…
With windows, you have a couple of well-known GUI utilities like WinRAR, 7zip, etc. that allow you to play around with archived files. What do you do in the case of Linux? The answer is – Linux zip and unzip…
With a boom in back-end web development technologies, working with the right framework can make or break your web development efforts. Python Flask is one of the many good frameworks out there. Flask is a popular Python web framework that…
After learning the basics in our previous tutorials about if-else statements, switch-case statements, etc, it’s time to create functions in shell scripts. Functions help us divide scripts into different sections and make the code more portable as well as reusable.…
Continuing our series, in today’s article, we’ll go over the until loop in shell scripts. We’ve already covered for loops and while loops in shell scripts in our previous tutorials. You’ll find a lot of similarities in the while and…
When you use the sudo command for the first time, you see the message “With great power, comes great responsibility.” And rightly so. “Sudo” is short for Superuser Do. With this command, any user who has been granted permissions has…
We talked about the while, for, and until loops in shell scripts in the past few tutorials now. Let’s learn the select loop in shell scripts, a very interesting and unique loop in bash. Why is it interesting or unique?…