Linux find statement is one of the most widely used statements that allows us to walk a file hierarchy. It is used to mostly find a specific file or directories and we can also append different other Linux statements or flags along with it to enhance or do a complex ... Read More

Swap space is common in Linux, and it usually is used when the amount of the physical memory(RAM) is full. The idea behind the swap space is that if the operating system needs more memory resources and the RAM doesn’t have any space left, then the pages that are inactive ... Read More

In order to be able to find out which process was killed by linux OOM killer, we will make use of the grep command that Linux provides us with. But at first we need to understand what a grep command is and how to use it on Linux.The grep command ... Read More

In order to be able to find all files with names containing a string in Linux command line, we will make use of the grep command, and at first we must understand what a grep command is and how to use it on Linux.The grep command in Linux is used ... Read More

It is a common scenario that certain commands that we write might fail for some reason. The reasons can be many, it can either be because of the difference between the GNU and BSD version of the core utils, or simply because there’s something logically wrong. In such a case, ... Read More

In order to be able to zip file and ignore directory structure that gets created with it, we first must understand what the zip command on Linux actually means and how we can make use of it.The zip command that Linux provides us with allows us to specify a compression ... Read More

If you have been programming, then you might have observed certain cases and scenarios where the program gets stuck or the process is running in an infinite loop which in turn puts pressure on the core of that thread which is handling that process.There are many such cases where this ... Read More

Let’s consider a case where we have two directories, say, d1 and d2 and both these directories contain some files, which may be the same or different. Now we want to compare the files that are present in both these directories and by comparison we need to print out what ... Read More

There are always chances that we will make some type of error whenever we are programming. Compilers and interpreters are always there to help us in these cases, but in order to use them we must run the program or some sort of an IDE that constantly checks for these ... Read More

We know that we can make use of the top command to print all the processes that are running in the background. Though the top command is used to print the list of processes or threads that are currently managed by the Linux kernel, it is still not a convenient ... Read More