Many of us who love to work on Linux enjoy the privilege of using a plethora of commands and tools. Here is an effort to introduce you to a few very simple- to-use, yet enormously effective commands. The intended audience may belong to all classes of Linux users and the only requirement is to have a basic acquaintance with Linux. Often, commands on the console may span many lines, and encountering a type mistake at the beginning of the command [...]
Everyone using unix in their job will once in a while have to run a long running process. Usually right before leaving the office to go to dinner. If you have to check on it later to make sure it finished right then you are stuck with redirecting the output to a file and look there later. Much better solution: Use screen! It can do lots of things, but the main one in this context is allowing you to “detach” [...]
I keep telling my friends – “There is no place like 127.0.0.1″ To me, this means there is no place like LINUX/UNIX! You will ask me “Isn’t 127.0.0.1 there in windows?” Ans: Yes it is there, but when i do a ipconfig, it will not display the loopback interface. But it does get displayed in LINUX/UNIX on typing ifconfig But, many people ask me “What is 127.0.0.1″ ? 127.0.0.1 is the standard IP address used for a loopback network connection. [...]
