In a former article I’ve wrote about the command locate, an useful command to find quickly a file in your computer. An alternative to locate is the command find : GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules [...]
How to properly use ‘dd’ on Linux to benchmark the write speed of your disk?
Original article published on http://romanrm.ru This article is written to address sometimes incorrect usage of the “dd” program to measure disk write performance on a VPS by some visitors of the lowendbox.com website, and is originally based on this question and my answer to it. Find me on Google+
Vi : Guides for Beginners
Vi is an old screen-oriented text editor , the first release of this software is dated back in 1976, originally created for the Unix operating system. What I like of vi is that I can find it in any Linux and Unix system I’ve to work, so once I learnt how to use it I’ve [...]
Surfraw – Surf the web from the CLI
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7 hidden features of bash
Today I want to share with you some of my favorite features of bash, I called them hidden because I’ve discovered that a lot of people don’t know or don’t use them, but to be honest they are not so hidden after all, they are in the man page of bash, but how many of [...]