PPAs or software repositories are essential in Debian based distributions, since the mainline repos provide outdated packages sometimes and not all the packages are available in the official repositories. However, these PPAs can cause errors while updating the system. In…
Let’s look at the different ways in which you can merge multiple files in Linux. We’ll majorly use the cat command for this purpose. So let us begin! For the rest of this tutorial we will consider three files. Let’s…
Linux provides a utility to manage our emails from the command line itself. The mail command is a Linux tool, that can be used to send emails via a command-line interface. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use this…
Ubuntu and it’s derivative Linux distributions usually have a very simple way of installing packages. Just look up the application name you want to install in the official Software Center and hit the big green install button. However, not every…
The rsync command in Linux is mainly used to synchronize the files on your machine locally or with a remote machine. When your work is being carried out from multiple locations or on more than just a single machine, synchronizing…
The tcpdump command is a Linux utility that allows users to capture network packets that are transmitted to and from the system. In this article, we will learn how to extract and examine network packets using tcpdump command. Although very…