Find
With hard drives becoming real cheap over the past few years we’ve grown accustomed to having many gigabytes or sometimes even terabytes of data on our computers. This is when…
Find and Replace
When you are working on the Linux command line and you come across a large file or a large number of files in which you need to replace a certain…
How to monitor your Linux machine with netstat
Netstat is an extremely useful Linux command line tool that allows you to check which service is connecting to a port on your machine. It is very useful to analyze…
How to resolve the “/bin/rm: Argument list too long” error
root@dwarf /var/spool/clientmqueue # rm spam-* /bin/rm: Argument list too long. Ever seen this error in Linux when you have too many files in a directory and you are unable to…
How to monitor MySQL in real-time with mytop
Mytop is a top-like realtime command line based monitoring system for MySQL. It is written by Jeremy Zawodny, and is available for free download. It runs on most UNIX-based systems,…
How to schedule tasks on Linux using the ‘at’ command
Scheduling jobs is an essential part of administering Linux servers. We took a look at how to schedule jobs on Linux machine using the cron command earlier. Here’s an alternative…
How to compress, move, and extract a directory – Bash one-liner
The other day I needed to migrate a directory containing a lot of files from one location on my Linux server to another. There are a number of ways I…