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Awk is a general-purpose scripting language designed for advanced text processing. It is mostly used as a reporting and analysis tool. Unlike most other programming languages that are procedural, awk is data-driven, which means that you define a set of actions to be performed against the input text. It takes the input data, transforms it, and sends the result to standard output. This article covers the essentials of the awk programming language. Knowing the basics of awk will greatly improve your ability to manipulate text files on the command line.

Bareos stands for "Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced" is a free and open-source backup platform forked from Bacula.org. It is a cross-platform software that can be used for backup, archiving and recovery of data for all operating systems.

23-Sep-05 can be correctly broken up into 23, 9 and 2005. This post demonstrates a command to find incorrect break-ups in tables with tens of thousands of date components.

Using the find command to investigate common system administrator issues can help ease the troubleshooting process.

The story behind my career with Linux is a bit unusual. It starts back in 2005; I was working as an auto mechanic at a Nissan dealership in Toledo, Ohio. I had never used a computer for anything other than checking email, browsing the web, and playing World of Warcraft. read more

In this guide, we will see how to download recursive dependencies of a package in Ubuntu. In other words, we are going to download the dependencies of dependencies.

Sublime text 3.0 is a popular, cross-platform, lightweight source code editor with an amazing working environment. In this article, we will show you how to install and launch a sublime text editor on CentOS 8.0 using the command-line.

A build system is comprised of the tools and processes used to transition from source code to a running application. This transition also involves changing the code's audience from the software developer to the end user, whether the end user is a colleague in operations or a deployment system. read more

Firewall holes or exceptions can seem like secret sauce, but they're really a matter of just following the packets.

Need to monitor or administer a server remotely via the web? Look no further than Cockpit.

More than 91% of students around the world are impacted by school closures due to COVID-19, and most governments have temporarily closed academic institutions. That's nearly 1.6 billion young people in 188 countries. Also, most of the learning platforms available online today aren't practical, engaging, or interactive, and lack true virtual collaboration. read more

'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work' Interview Inkscape, a popular open-source vector graphics application, is heading for its 1.0 release more than 16 years after its first appearance in November 2003.…

This is a crash course in data science designed for the absolute beginner. Get up to speed in 20 minutes.

Skipper is an open source HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. As its GitHub page states, it's designed to handle large amounts of dynamically configured HTTP route definitions (>600,000 routes) with detailed lookup conditions and flexible augmentation of the request flow with filters. It can be used out of the box or extended with custom lookup, filter logic, and configuration sources. read more

The Witcher game is available for Windows, PlayStation, and Xbox, but Linux users were left out in the cold. Here's how you can play the Witcher 3 on Linux.

Adlink has launched four Linux-ready “Matrix” edge computers with 8th and 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs: the compact MXE-5600 and similar, but up to 3x PCIe MXC-6600 and the MVP-5100-MXM and similar, up to 2x PCIe MVP-6100-MXM. Adlink announced the release of its next generation of Matrix embedded computers, which follow earlier Matrix models such […]

With the Firefox 75 release hitting the streets earlier this month, Mozilla already kicked off the development cycle of the next major release, Firefox 76, which is now available for public beta testing.

Memcached is a free and open-source high-performance in-memory key-value data store. Typically, it used as a caching system to speed up applications by caching various objects from the results of database calls. This article shows how to install and configure Memcached on CentOS 8.

Creating logical volumes in Linux with LVM

When you type something in Ubuntu dash, you will see the installed application menu entries. This guide explains how to hide applications from Ubuntu dash.