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....

Linux Command Line Basics: Part 2

We will now continue with the Linux command line basics. For those of you who have just visited this site, the first part of Linux command line basics can be found here. In this post we will go through the standard Linux directory structure before explaining you some concepts about Linux file permissions so that you will be in a better position to understand user/group management commands and the commands...

Linux Command Line Basics: Part 1

We are starting a series of posts for end users who are not familiar with Linux commands. These commands are very easy and powerful. Linux has evolved as a great choice for desktop OS and most of the tasks can be accomplished from within the GUI. But still, we may need to use the command line interface in case of an emergency where GUI is not available or for remote administration(Telnet, SSH etc.)...