The GUI text editor gives you a separate panel in the footer to inform you of the number of words, lines, and characters in your text file. Even though you can easily find the number of strings that occurred in your text file using this
Do you still type the long “sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y” commands each time you want to update your Debian-based system? Or are you still navigating into directories (ex: “/var/www/html“) using the cd command each time you have to modify something there?
In Linux, whenever you want to execute any executable program or script, you need to jump into the directory and execute your program or script. But when you execute system commands like ls, pwd, echo, apt, and nano, you don’t need to jump into any
The environment variables are a set of key-value pairs that define the shell environment and can affect the behavior of the ongoing programs that are executed in the current shell session. The programs running in the current shell session can access the variable values from
In Linux, you have multiple tools that can help you find the absolute path for files and directories in your system. Today, you’ll learn about those tools from basic to advanced, including their pros and cons to help you easily distinguish between them and decide
When you create a new user account and set a password for that account, the “password expires” status is set to never (ex: 0). Apart from that, the “password inactive” and “account expires” statuses are also set to never, and your last password change will
It is important for a Linux administrator to find out all the users on their current system so that they can adjust the rules and privileges for each one. In this article, you will learn three ways to display the list of all users on
If you are a root user and interested in switching to another user account, you can easily do it without requiring to know their password because you are a penguin. However, if you are the user with sudo privileges and are interested in switching to
