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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.
Failed logins can be legitimate human error or attempts to hack your Linux system, but either way they might flag something that warrants attention.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the factor command. It’s not one that you will likely need very often, but it can be very useful when you’re doing math on the command line. It provides the factors for any number you offer as an argument.
The ps command makes it fairly easy to sort its output by any column of data. Learn more about the --sort option and how to use it, plus how to pass ps output to the sort command.
Adding a tag to a Linux command can make it a little easier to reuse it. If you're struggling to remember complex commands or important locations in the file system, tags might help you out.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use the disown command. It provides a way to detach a process you’re running from your login session so that it isn’t killed (hung up on) when you log out. This means that the process can continue running after you...
Midnight Commander is a powerful tool that provides an easy way to browse, compare, move, modify and manipulate files.
The usermod command allows you to make a lot of different changes to user accounts without having to carefully edit files like /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group. It's definitely worth your time to look into it.
In this Linux tip, learn how to use ranger. It’s a tool that allows you to easily browse files in a terminal window, but in a much different manner than you normally would on the command line.
When you disown a Linux process in bash, you keep it from being terminated when you log out and allow it to finish on its own. This post shows how to use the disown command.
