Linux Commands - Part 30

Understanding Shared Libraries in Linux

In programming, a library is an assortment of pre-compiled pieces of code that can be reused in a program. Libraries

YUM plug-ins are small programs that extend and improve the overall performance of the package manager. A few of them

In Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, “everything is a file” and a file is fundamentally a link to an

Wildcards (also referred to as meta characters) are symbols or special characters that represent other characters. You can use them

Sockstat is a versatile command line utility used for displaying network and system opened sockets in FreeBSD. Mainly, sockstat command

In our previous article, we have described how to count the number of files and subdirectories inside a given directory.

ps (processes status) is a native Unix/Linux utility for viewing information concerning a selection of running processes on a system:

As a system administrator, you will inevitably perform scheduled system maintenances at some point or another. A few times, your

Wget utility is a popular and feature-rich command-line based file downloader for Unix-like operating systems and Windows OS. It supports

Systemd is a modern init system for Linux: a system and service manager which is compatible with the popular SysV

In this tutorial, we will explain auxiliary file permissions, commonly referred to as “special permissions” in Linux, and also we

Exa is a lightweight, fast and modern replacement for the popular ls command on Unix-like operating systems. It is written