Linux is a multi-user platform or OS. It allows many users to work and interact on the same system simultaneously. The admin or the root user who has sudo privileges sets the permissions for reading or writing resources for these users or a group of users. Now, to manage such a vast number of users in a single… Read More »
If you are a hard-core Linux user, you might have heard of Symbolic Links in Linux. In fact, there are two types of such link-based files in Linux – Hard and Soft Links. Before we begin with this tutorial, it’s important to understand both these types of links and what they are used for. A hard link in… Read More »
Zip is a file format for archived files and perhaps the most popular one. Other formats such as tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc. are also used, but zip still tops the charts. You can use the zip command in Linux to perform lossless data compression of directories and files. In simpler words, a zip file can be considered as a… Read More »
We know that Linux provides a robust environment for multiple users to work together in the same host machine. This means that Linux can be categorized as a multi-user OS, where several users can interact with each other simultaneously. Now, these users can be grouped along with each other, and we can define a specific set of permissions… Read More »
Google Chrome is one of the most popular browsers in the world with around 64.6% market share worldwide in 2021. It has support for Windows as well as Linux Machines. It is fast, easy-to-install, has tons of useful extensions, and gives you a seamless browsing experience. However, in terms of privacy Firefox is better than Chrome or you… Read More »
We all know that Linux is one of the best multi-user OS platforms. It allows more than one user to operate and interact with each other simultaneously on the same machine. Linux uses a method called ownership to record which files and directories belong to which users and what permissions they have to access these resources. Every file… Read More »
The Linux GREP command is often used to return lines and files that perfectly match a pattern or a regular expression. You can also use the grep command along with the output of some other command by pipelining it. GREP abbreviates for General Regular Expression Print and is a very handy command or a tool for pattern matching… Read More »
Linux allows creating a set of permissions to manage the access to files and defines who can read, write, or execute those files. Typically, there are three sets of permissions for a file – for the owner, group, and the last one is for everyone else. For a directory, these sets of permissions define who can move into… Read More »
You can either use a GUI-based file manager or a Command-Line to manage your day-to-day operations related to files such as copying, creating, renaming, deleting, updating, etc. While it’s true that using a GUI-based file manager is interactive and allows you to perform some operations quickly, however, in the long run, having a grip on the basic commands… Read More »
SED, the short form of Stream Editor, is one of the most powerful text manipulation command-line tools that Linux offers. Predominantly used for text substitution, it can also perform other operations on files and text streams, such as finding patterns, replacing them without even opening files, inserting text, etc. The command can also understand regex as a form… Read More »
