When it comes to working with unix systems monitoring them plays a very significant role. Whether it’s monitoring the resource utilisation or network utilisation, you need to figure out what the system is actually doing. In this article I’ve aggregated a list of the most common linux commands used for monitoring the current state of the system. On a system with GUI, you can achieve this using a Task Manager or Activity Monitor. But when you work with the command line you cannot just open up a graphical task manager. Therefore, here I have listed some of the robust tools and common linux commands which can be used to monitor the system. ...

When you work with linux or any unix based operating system, everything is treated as a file. Be it the directories, source code files, binaries, or anything else, everything is stored as a file in linux. You can trying opening  a directory in vim (using the command vim office_work_directory) to see what happens. I would recommend against directly editing a directory file though. It’s just fun to see what is actually stored in a directory file. ...

When you work with linux a graphical user interface is not always available. In most cases, you’ll just have the access to a terminal of a remote machine, on which you have just logged in using ssh. In this article we list the basic linux commands for file/text manipulation that you’ll need. These commands are extremely useful for playing around with files in a system. It doesn’t have to be remote system at all, for experimentation purposes, you can just open up a terminal locally. Just try each command with any text file on a unix based operating system. ...

In the following article we are going to explore the top 10 linux commands of all time. Linux feels so powerful because it gives you the ability to manipulate virtually everything from the command line. And command line or a terminal is way faster than doing the something from the conventional Graphical user interface (at least when you get used to it). I have a rule of mine which I tell anyone who asks me about how I am so fast with the terminal. The rule is applicable if you’re a beginner or you’re an expert and is very simple to implement. It goes as follows: ...