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In this video transcript, Sandra Henry-Stocker discusses how to calculate factorials on a Linux system. She explains that factorials are the multiplication of numbers starting with a specified number and decreasing incrementally until reaching 1. To ...
In this episode, Sandra Henry-Stocker, author of the "Unix as a Second Language" blog on NetworkWorld, explores the use of the "nohup" (no hangup) command in Linux.
In this episode, Sandra Henry-Stocker, the author of the "Unix as a Second Language" blog on NetworkWorld, introduces various ways to use the Linux date command. She demonstrates how to use the "date" command to display the current day of the week, d...
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at several ways to increment and decrement numeric variables in bash.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at a way that you can view every Nth line in a text file – whether every other line, every third line, every eleventh line or whatever you want to see.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the comm command – a Linux command that provides a report on the lines that are common in two text files along with those that only exist in one file or the other.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at an easy way to avoid saving commands in your command history. The first thing you need to do is set your HISTCONTROL variable to ignore commands that you enter followed by a space by using the “ignorespac...
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at how you can get your command history to omit commands when you enter them more than once in a row.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at using the more command to view text files a selected number of lines at a time.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the greater than and greater than x2 operators and how they work. The greater than operator will take the output of the command preceding it and put it into the file that follows it.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at setting up sudo privileges for users on Fedora. The key is to make them members of the “wheel” group.
Hi, this is Sandra Henry-Stocker, author of the "Unix as a Second Language" blog on NetworkWorld. In this video, I'm going to show you how to take a file that was password-protected with vim and turn it back into a regular text file.
In this Linux tip we will learn how to encrypt using Vim
In this Linux tip, we will look at how to move around on the Linux command line. There may be some tricks that you don’t know.
In this video, we're going to take a look at how you can search for commands in your command history -- in reverse order – and then rerun one.
In this video, we're going to take a look at the grep command and some of the things you can do with it.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the netstat -s command that displays network statistics. The numbers reflect activity since the system’s last boot so some counts will change fairly frequently.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the df -Th command. It provides details on your file systems but, unlike du -h, it adds the file system type – a good thing to take a look at from time to time and understand.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to check out how you can look at, count and evaluate arguments that are used with bash scripts.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the fortune command. Yes, fortune. It’s a command that will tell you your fortune though, I have to admit, it’s entirely random.