Linux Tricks

In this article, we will briefly talk about ports in computer networking and move to how you can list all

In this guide, we will describe what character encoding and cover a few examples of converting files from one character

In this article, we will look at how to find a process name by its process identification number (PID). Before

As a newbie, one of the many things you should master in Linux is identification of devices attached to your

Let’s say you have a large ISO file on your Linux server and you wanted to access, extract or copy

Let us start by defining a bad sector/block, it’s a section on a disk drive or flash memory that can

Sometimes you get into a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply cleanup a

The easiest way to count number of files and subdirectories in a directory using a tree command, which is best

If you are in charge of managing a database server, from time to time you may need to run a

Sometimes you may find it useful to display the access rights of files or directories in octal form instead of

Some of the special directories that a Linux user is bound to work with so many times on a shell