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This guide explains how to manually add messages to Linux system log files using logger command to test a log server.

This brief guide explains how to install Perl modules on Linux from CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) repository using cpan and cpanminus clients.

This guide provides a list of useful tools for Linux system admins. These tools may not be useful all the time, but some of them might help. Sysadmin-util is a collection of useful tools for Linux system admins and anyone who wants to improve their Linux command line skill-sets in general.

This step-by-step tutorial explains how to install Anaconda Python distribution on Linux operating system.

Find and delete the unused broken symlinks on Linux using 'symlinks' utility and "find" command.

This guide explains how to install Racket programing language on Linux.

Have you ever been in a situation where you wanted to send the output of a Linux command to your colleague or friend to get help? This simple Linux hack will definitely be useful to you.

Tuptime, the uptime command's alternative, is a command line utility to find Linux system uptime details.

This guide explains how to install and play Terminal Phase space shooter game in Terminal on Linux.

Zaloha.sh is a directory synchronizer that stands out by its small size and simplicity. It is actually a BASH script. It consists of only one file, Zaloha.sh, whose size is 125 kB. Approximately half of that file is documentation, the other half is program code. Zaloha.sh works out-of-the-box. This tutorial explains how to synchronize files and directories on Linux using Zaloha shell script.

Using Restricted Shell, we can easily limit user's access to the Linux system. Once you put the users in restricted shell mode, they are allowed to execute only limited set of commands.

DuckDuckGo bangs allows you to search directly on your favorite websites and blogs, without having to visit them first.

Download packages with dependencies locally in Ubuntu and its derivatives.

This guide explains how to quickly transfer large files between two systems over Network using netcat, tar, and pv commands in any GNU/Linux and Unix-like operating systems.

Delayed Admin utility will temporarily drop admin privileges to administrators. It will not remove the admin privileges of an administrative user account completely, but delays them for a particular time.

This brief tutorial explains how to compile and run C, C++ programs in GNU/Linux operating system with a simple example.

This guide explains how to create an ISO from a bootable USB drive that we created already in Linux operating system.

Procs is a command line utility to show information about active and running processes in Linux. Procs is written in Rust programming language and it is cross-platform. As of writing this guide, Procs fully supports Linux. Mac OS and Windows are experimentally-supported. In this brief tutorial, let us see how to install Procs and how to display process information using Procs on Linux.

This guide explains how to create multiple bootable USB drives using Popsicle, all at once.

Display network bandwidth utilization by process, connection and remote IP or hostname on Linux.