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Sandra Henry-Stocker has been administering Unix systems for more than 30 years. She describes herself as "USL" (Unix as a second language) but remembers enough English to write books and buy groceries. She lives in the mountains in Virginia where, when not working with or writing about Unix, she's chasing the bears away from her bird feeders.
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Automating responses to scripts on Linux using expect and autoexpect
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Checking network connections with arp and ip neigh
In Linux, the arp and ip neigh commands provide easy ways to check your local network.
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Searching Wikipedia on the Linux command line with wikit
Wikit is a clever command for running Wikipedia searches from the Linux command line. It can help you run searches and save the output in text files. Take a look at how easily it works and learn what you need to know to get the...
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The arping command can ping local systems to find out whether they are responsive, and with the help of scripts, can ping specific IP-address ranges.
Creating your own cowsay messenger
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Using pidof and pgrep to list process IDs
The pidof and pgrep commands make selecting and using process IDs on the Linux command line painless.
Fetching Linux system details with screenfetch and neofetch
Here's how to use screenfetch and neofetch tools to display some of the most important configuration information on your Linux system.
Many ways to sort file content on Linux
The Linux sort command has an impressive number of ways to sort, from alphanumeric to random. Here's a look at some of the more useful ones.
Monitoring failed login attempts on Linux
Failed logins can be legitimate human error or attempts to hack your Linux system, but either way they might flag something that warrants attention.
How to sort ps output
The ps command makes it fairly easy to sort its output by any column of data. In fact, you can sort it in the normal or reverse order. In this post, I'll present the --sort option and show how to use it. I'll also touch on how to pass...
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