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Linux provides a lot of useful commands for looking at users, their activity and their impact on the system.
The ac command can provide very useful summaries of how much time users spend logged into a Linux system. It gets its data from the wtmp file.
There are lots of sides to bash and much to know before you're likely to feel comfortable snuggling up to it. This post examines many aspects of this very popular shell and recommends further reading.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at a bash option that will cause a script to exit any time it encounters an error. It’s called “errexit."
If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make the job easy.
Cisco is offering software updates for two of its AnyConnect for Windows VPN products it says represent a threat ranked 'high'.
The Linux aspell and enchant tools can both ID typos in text files and suggest replacements.
A tool called wikit provides an easy way to get information from Wikipedia without leaving the Linux command line.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to examine bash's continue command. It is a bash built-in and provides a way to stop executing the commands in a loop depending on some condition.
