Linux

Learn How to install and transfer file securely. The scp command in Linux – Securely Copy Data in Linux.

The screen command is a terminal multiplexer. It is similar to the Window Manager for a Desktop Environment except that it works inside the terminal. It can create sessions and split windows which are a very powerful way of doing multitasking in the terminal. Installing the screen command The screen command can be installed with

When it comes to downloading files from the internet, we usually imagine pressing the download button. However, you can also download files directly from your terminal. Wget and Curl are two of the popular tools that let you do that. In this tutorial we will look at these two and see how the two differ.

Vim and Nano are two of the commonly used editors available on Linux. Both the editors differ a lot in the way they operate. Nano is simple to use and easy to master while Vim is powerful and tough to master. Vim is a mode based text editor while Nano is modeless. Mode based editor

Emacs editor is one of the oldest and most versatile text editors available for Linux UNIX-based systems. It has been around for over 20 years. It is known for its powerful and rich editing features. Emacs offers amazing editing features like that of Vim editor and is as user-friendly as the nano editor. You won’t have to enter insertion mode to

Peek is an animated GIF recorder that makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. In this article, let’s learn how to install peek on Linux and record your first gif. GIF is short for Graphics Interchange Format. It is a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static

Nano is a user friendly text editor available on Linux. It is easy to learn as compared to other text editors such as vim and emacs. Nano is a  modeless, WYSIWYG command-line text editor. Modeless means that it doesn’t have modes like Vim editor and WYSIWYG means What You See Is What You Get. Beginner’s

If you have installed software on your Linux system using the terminal then you must have come across apt-get install. This tutorial will explain what the command means and what’s the right way to use it. Let’s get started. What is apt? Apt stands for “Advanced Packaging Tool”. It is a package manager that is

Linux, a freely distributable version of UNIX is developed by Linus Torvalds. Linux is one of the most popular operating systems to use for development by programmers. This tutorial will take a deep dive into the history of Linux. The beginning of the UNIX project The inspiration for UNIX came from the Multics project at

In this article, we’ll learn to set the JAVA_HOME variable in Linux. JAVA_HOME should be correctly set on your system in order for you to be able to run Java programs successfully. In case there is an error, you will get the following error : To avoid getting this error you will have to set