April 2021

In the Linux Operating System, some users wish to install applications to check how much is used, and free RAM is available. The installation of those applications might take a large memory size. Linux provides a “free” built-in command…

In Linux and Unix-like systems, the “cal” command is a command-line utility used to print calendars on the terminal. “Cal” is an abbreviated form of Calendar. It is a pretty simple command and doesn’t contain many options. There are few…

In Linux operating system, the terminal is a powerful tool for Linux users to work on. Linux is all about work for the folks, and there is no fun to use it; you’ll get surprised to see tons of funny commands pronounced as terminal-based…

In a Linux system, we often do mistakes while typing commands in the terminal. Learning from those mistakes and getting entertained by them could be good art. Steam Locomotive is a utility containing 295 lines of code in the C language. It…

In Unix-like systems, the “nproc” command is a tool that is used to count the number of available processing units available to the current processes. It also counts the total number of installed processing units present in a system. This…

It is difficult for a new Linux user to monitor users or groups’ names with their Ids/Gids. In Linux distributions, an id is a command-line tool that is used to display the real and effective user’s Id and group’s Ids. The real id is the…

The pwd is a helpful command for Linux users who are inexperienced and might get lost in the middle of directories. The pwd is an abbreviated form of “Print Working Directory,” or we can call the Current Work Directory. It displays the…

The best way to display the running process in a system is to display them as a tree hierarchy. In a Linux system, “pstree” helps visualize processes hierarchy which is a less complex way to display running processes. The “pstree”…

In Linux operating system, “od” is a useful command that converts the input in multiple formats with octal format by-default. As we all know, Octal has a base-8 number used to present binary numbers in a short form. Linux developers…

Linux and Windows are both fantastic operating systems and work for different purposes. Over the past several years, many users have expressed an interest to use Linux on Windows. This recently became a reality when Microsoft partnered…