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The ss command on Linux systems can provide extensive details on the sockets that provide communications between systems.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the wall command. The name is short for “write all” and it provides a way for messages to be sent to all logged in users. On some Linux systems (like Fedora), this requires the use of sudo.
Linux provides a number of commands for examining network connections and sometimes creates new ones to expand functionality.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the zipcloak command that you can use to encrypt a zip file so that it is password-protected.
Linux provides commands for converting numbers from one base to another. Learn how to uses these commands and how to make the process easier with scripts and aliases.
There are many ways to loop through data on Linux using bash and many ways to generate the data to be looped through.
The zdiff and zcmp commands can see if Linux files differ and if so, how.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look the tr command (translate) that is used to replace or remove characters in strings or files.
The highly compatible zip, unzip and zipcloak commands on Linux can help you create encrypted zip files and extract their contents as needed.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the whatis command. It’s a helpful command that will give you a one-line description of any command that you ask about.
