In this article, we’re talking about the tty command in Linux. The Linux operating system uses file system to represent everything. Not just the text files and images but even the hardware and the terminal. Yes, even the terminal you…
dmesg command, shorthand for “diagnostic message”, is a Linux utility for displaying the messages that flow within the kernel ring buffer. A kernel ring buffer is a logging mechanism from the system startup which comes into play for diagnostics of…
The od command in Linux converts displays the contents of a file in different formats. Octal is the default format, however, it is not the only format under od command. What is the od command in Linux? od is short…
This article demonstrates the various ways to find the Linux version of your system. Linux version can either mean the kernel version that runs the entire system or the version of the Linux distribution currently using. If you wish to…
This article coves multiple ways to perform a Linux system restart. We’ll be going over the steps to restart a Linux system from the terminal and also see a Python and C++ implementation of the same. The terminal is one…
It is nearly impossible to use Linux without knowing about the cd command. It is one of the first commands a person learns when they start working on Linux. The cd command lets us change directories. cd is short for…
In this article, we’ll discuss about how we can open a bin file in Linux. Before we get into the topic, let’s go over a quick brief about what a bin file actually is. What is a bin file? A…
The pwd command in Linux prints the complete path of the current working directory. PWD is short for Print Working Directory. It comes in handy to check the directory you are currently operating from. The command to change directories is…
As the name suggests, the locate command in Linux is used to find files in the system by their names. This command is more efficient than the prominent find command that serves the same purpose. The reason for this efficacy…
This article talks about the nice command in Linux. In Linux, each process has a nice value granted to it. This value influences the scheduling of processes and thereby determining the amount of CPU to spent on each one of…