Linux Command Line Basics: Part 6

In today’s post we’ll learn a few more Linux system information commands. Those who are new to this site can read part 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of this series for better understanding. Let’s get started: 1. ifconfig – interface configuration. This command displays information about the network interfaces in a system. 2. iwconfig – This command is similar to ‘ifconfig’...

Linux Command Line Basics: Part 5

In today’s post we’ll learn a few Linux system information commands: 1. df – disk free. This commands displays filesystem and disk space usage for all partitions. If option ‘-h’ (human-readable) is used with the command, it will generate the report using KB/MB/GB units instead of number of blocks which are displayed when the command is used without any options. 2. free...

Linux Command Line Basics: Part 4

Today we’ll start from where we left in the third part of this series. For those of you who are new to this site, you can read the first three parts of the Linux command line basics here- Part 1, Part 2, Part3 To understand today’s post it is essential that you go through Part 2 and Part 3 of this series. We’ll now learn how to add users to groups via command line and how to modify...

Linux Command Line Basics: Part 3

In today’s post we will learn how to manage users and groups. For those of you who are new to this site, do read the first part and the second part of the Linux command line basics before continuing. Let’s get started- 1. adduser – Add user. Syntax is ‘sudo adduser <user name>’. We need to use ‘sudo’ as root privileges are required to run this command....