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grep, originally developed for Unix-based systems, is one of the most widely used command-line utility in Linux boxes. Its name comes from another similar command in ed tool, i.e., g/re/p which stands for globally search for a regular expression and print matching lines. grep basically searches for a given pattern or regular expression from standard…
It often happens that we find a Linux system has rebooted in an unplanned way or due to unknown apparent reasons. Finding and resolving the root cause can help in preventing the recurrence of such issues and avoid unplanned downtime. There are several ways we can find out what triggered a reboot. In this article,…
pip (or its recursive acronym “Pip Installs Packages”) is the package installer for Python. Python has an extensive index of available modules and packages that you can use in your projects. Often, downloading them or keeping them updated is a challenge, especially if your project is huge or needs to maintain multiple such projects. That’s…
One of the basic file system administration tasks involves creating, modifying, and deleting different types of files and directories. Knowing some basic tools and concepts for file deletion comes in handy and can save you time. Linux offers several tools that can help us accomplish file removal tasks. Often we need to remove not just…
lsof is a powerful utility available for Linux and Unix-based systems which literally stands for ‘list (of) open files’. Its main function is to retrieve details about various types of files opened up by different running processes. These files can be regular files, directories, block files, network sockets, named pipes, etc. With lsof, you can…
SFTP or Secure File Transfer Protocol is a secure remote file transfer utility based on File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP traffic is unencrypted and insecure which is why it has been mostly replaced by SFTP. SFTP runs over SSH protocol by default on TCP port 22 and offers the same set of security and encryption…
Git is one of the most popular open-source, distributed version control systems available, designed to handle everything from small to huge projects with speed and efficiency. It allows you to keep track of your code changes, create different code branches, collaborate with other developers, to name a few. Linux Kernel, one of the popular open-source…
Meet CentOS Web Panel – a free web hosting control panel. CentOS Web Panel (CWP) can help you to install LAMP or LEMP stack easily. It’s a free solution and works on CentOS. If you are looking to host CMS like WordPress, Joomla, etc, or a PHP-based application where you need a web server, database,…
In its basic form, find is easy. At the same time, it can be complex with the number of options, tests, and actions available. The find command is an incredibly powerful tool, and putting effort into learning it can be rewarding. It will help you in performing various system administration tasks efficiently, like disk space…
Nmap stands for “Network Mapper“, is one of the best open-source utility available now for network discovery and security auditing. Nmap sends packets and analyzes the response it gets to discover hosts and services on a computer network. It is one of the most widely used port scanners available today to help you find open ports and detecting…
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