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In this Linux tip, learn how to use the wait command. It's a command that allows you to wait for a process running in the background to finish before you move on to the next command.
Adding disk space to virtual machines is important to keep systems running properly and can be accomplished using Microsoft Server Hyper-V with either Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the sleep command. The sleep command introduces a pause on the command line or in a script.
Swap space can play an important role in system performance. Learn how to determine how much swap space your system has available and how much it's being used.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the export command. It's a bash built-in that allows command line variables to be available to a child process – a second shell or a script that you run.
It's doubtful that even Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, imagined it would play such a major role in everything from supercomputers to tiny embedded devices.
If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh.
