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....
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....