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When a Linux user finds his system nearly out of disk space and unwilling to save files, fellow Linux users online provide a solution.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use bash shell's "debugging mode". It can help you pinpoint problems, especially in long or complicated scripts.
The where, whereis and whatis commands summarize commands, show where executables are, and point to relevant man pages.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use exiftool. It's an app that you can install on your Linux system to pull metadata from jpg and png files. That metadata provides information such as the date the image was created or last modified, the image size in...
You can examine the contents of compressed files on Linux systems without uncompressing the files or changing them in any way. This post explains the commands for doing that and the types of compressed files they work with.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the help command. It's a command that provides useful information on bash "builtins". Those are commands that are built into, in other words "part of" the bash shell, not executables on their own.
Gimp is normally used to create or manipulate images files, but can also work with PDFs if you understand how it works and what it's limits are.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the traceroute command. It reports on the route taken to reach a remote system and provides timing details for each "hop" along the way (the time between routers).
Linux has many tricks that can reduce the number of keystrokes it takes to type in commands. Here are six of them.
