The hwinfo command can be used to check hardware information about various devices on Linux systems like Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS, and this post shows some examples.
Here are some command line tools that can be used to analyse and monitor network bandwidth usage on your Linux server.
Tutorial on how to monitor network and socket connections on linux with ss command ( socket statistics )
How to use the findmnt command to check mounted file systems and devices on linux system.
A quick tutorial with simple examples on how to use the scp (secure copy) command to transfer files securely on Linux.
Tutorial on how to use collectl command to monitor system resources like cpu, disk io, network on a linux system.
How to use the Inxi command to gather system and hardware information on Linux servers and desktops.
This tutorial explains how to use the ps command on linux with examples
This tutorial shows 10 super simple examples of netstat command on linux for monitoring network connections
Here is a list of commands along with examples, which can be used to check memory (RAM and swap) usage on Linux system.
This tutorial shows how to send and receive mails from the command line using the mail and mutt commands on linux.
Learn to use the linux find command to search and find files from the command line quickly and easily with these examples.
The tutorial shows how to reboot or shutdown a linux system using commands like reboot, shutdown, halt, poweroff and REISUB.
If there is a lot of content on the usb flash drive and you want to erase all of it quickly then a simple way to do it is by formatting it. There are many gui tools available on linux to view and format partitions on storage devices like ssds and flash drives. These include… Read More »
Open ports When running any kind of server application like http or ftp server, or doing socket programming, it might so happen that a server program when recompiled/rerun fails to bind to a particular port number because that port number is already in use. In such a case, you can either restart the system or… Read More »
Netcat is a commandline utility like telnet but with much more features. Learn to use netcat with these simple commands examples.
The most common compressed archive file format in Linux is the tar.gz format. Tar file is an archive file format. Tar.gz is a compressed tar file. Create tar.gz archives The tar command can be used to create tar.gz archives. tar czf new-tar-file-name.tar.gz file-or-folder-to-archive Here is the command explanation: c – create new archive. z -… Read More »
Linux distro name and version When working with an unknown server, the first task of a sys admin is to gather some information about the system, like what OS is it running, what version, what services are running and so on. And there is no single command that can detect distribution specific information consistently across… Read More »