Linux (or its shells) is a powerful tool that can handle all the tasks on a workstation or server without a hitch, giving you full control over your system. Like managing the background process, setting up a web server, monitoring the network devices, handling a
While walking in your Linux journey, you might hit yourself with the term “chroot” (or “chroot jail”), and that’s what you’re about to learn today: what they are and their usage. Tutorial Details Description Chroot Jail Difficulty Level Moderate Root or Sudo Privileges Yes OS
You think you always interacted with Bash? Wrong, under the hood, there was a savior to provide you speed and better efficiency, known as Dash. What is the Dash Shell in Linux? Dash (or the “Debian Almquist shell“) is a UNIX/Linux shell that complies with
The C shell (or CSH) is one of the earliest UNIX/Linux shell interpreters, developed by Bill Joy at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1970s, inspired by the C programming language. Along with Bash and Korn Shell, these three were the most popular
You might have heard of the Bash shell (or even ZSH or Fish), whose popularity has overshadowed other shells to the point that most Linux users think they are the only shell interpreters available for Linux. But before they came into existence, there was another
The vdir command is an equivalent to the “ls -l -b” command, printing the content in long list format and showing escape characters on the file or directory name, just like the dir command is equivalent to the “ls -C -b” command. Practically, you might
The cd command is a very popular tool for navigating through multiple directory paths in the Linux filesystem, but there is one problem with that, what? A directory with a short path can be easily navigated, but a directory with a long path might become
🚀 Quick Overview The two commands are identical, and you can consider that “dir” is equivalent to the “ls -Cb” command. In the Linux world, two common commands, “ls” and “dir“, replicate each other so well that most Linux users think one of them is
The ls command is famous for showing the content of the current working directory and has become so popular that it outranks other commands like the dir command. The dir command is rarely used today except for shell script; apart from that, both commands have
The UNIX/Linux CD command is popularly used to move into different directories from the current working directory using the command line (or terminal). When you open your terminal, Linux will use your home directory as the current working directory, so to navigate into a different
The read command is a built-in Linux utility for shell script writers (and for you) to take single line input from the keyboard or from the file descriptor and store it in a variable. The applications for this command are wide ranging, like asking for
The Fish is a modern (friendly interactive shell) program identical to its allies, like Bash and Zsh, but with sprinkles on top. What does that mean? You already know about the Bash shell (because it’s the default login shell for most Linux distros) and the
