This tutorial shows how to map a mouse button in Linux both from the command line and the GUI. Map a Mouse Button in Linux from the Command Line: To map your mouse from the command line you need xinput, a command line utility to configure and test X input devices. Xinput allows you to […]

This tutorial explains how to find last modified files in Linux using different commands and according to custom needs. After reading this tutorial you’ll know how to execute the following tasks: How to find files modified in a specific day range How to find last modified specific file type (e.g mp4, png) Finding files modified […]

This tutorial explains how to cut and crop videos from the command line using ffmpeg. FFmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source suite of tools and libraries to edit multimedia and streams from the command line. It supports encoding and decoding most multimedia formats, including uncommon files. After reading this tutorial which includes procedure and video screenshots, […]

Sometimes a well-designed system may not perform well due to some hardware issues. Among many issues, overheating is one of the primary issues that can cause a system to run slowly. Therefore, monitoring the temperature of the hardware can assist you to avoid damage to your system. So, here’s a tool to help you to […]

SSH is a popular and effective way to connect to remote Linux machines in the command line. In most Linux distributions, SSH functionality is available from OpenSSH utilities. In this tutorial, we will take a look at the SSH configuration administered by the sshd_config file. Modifying the sshd_config file permits us to modify how SSH […]

Linux comes with many pre-installed tools. The wc command is one of them. The term “wc” is an abbreviation of “word count”. As the name suggests, the wc command is for counting various values of a file. These counts can come in handy in various situations. In this guide, check out using the wc command […]

LVM snapshots are the point-in-time copies of the logical volumes. The snapshots volumes take further space whenever a change occurs in the original logical volume. For example, if the changes made to the original logical volume are 1GB in size, then the logical volume snapshot will also take a space of 1GB. Therefore, it is […]

This article will cover a guide on various methods that can be used to bulk or batch rename multiple files at once in Linux. Some of these applications feature a graphical interface, while others can be used from the command line. Rename Command Rename command is available by default in most Linux distributions, and it […]

Any device connected to a network gets assigned an IP address that allows other devices in the network to locate and communicate with it. Typically, an IP address gets assigned by the DHCP server on a router. A DHCP server assigns any available IP address to the connected network. That means the IP address of […]

In Linux, linking is a powerful concept. A symbolic link is a file that refers to a different file or directory. The link itself doesn’t contain any data of the original file. It simply points to the location of the original file, be it in the same filesystem, different filesystem, or a remote filesystem. In […]