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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The help command is the simplest way to get information regarding a built-in shell command. It helps you fetch information from the shell’s internal documentation. It takes a text string as the command line argument and looks for the provided…
In this tutorial, we will be learning how to use the RPM Package Manager (RPM command) to install software packages. RPM is a free open-source package manager tool that comes preinstalled in RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS-based distributions. It’s similar to…
Creating and editing files is the most fundamental part of using a Linux-based system. There are different ways to edit files in Linux. In this tutorial, we go over how to edit them on Linux systems. You can either use…
The tree command recursively lists directories and files in Linux. Files are listed in an indented manner under their directories. Tree command is similar to ls command which is famously known for listing files and directories. The only difference is…
In this tutorial, we will learn how we can run C programs in Linux. C language was developed at Bell Laboratories in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie. It is still very popular for system-level programming. C language is the mother language of…