The man pages are important reference pages for any Unix user. But their look and feel is very boring because it is just lines of text with some punctuations. In this article we will see how the different parts of the man pages can be coloured and highlighted. That will ... Read More

Sometimes a Unix command may run for a very long time without giving the final output or it make a processing giving partial output from time to time. In such scenario we will like to put a time frame within which either the command mast complete for the process should ... Read More

Many times we need to search for a particular string which may be present in multiple files. In this article we'll see which commands to use to find all the files that contains a particular string or Word.Using grepIt is a powerful regular expression search tool. At a basic level ... Read More

The Linux GUI based terminal window has many colours and font settings which can be enhanced as per the user choice. All these can be done using the shell commands and not just by clicking mouse buttons in the GUI component settings.Most of these settings are handled through variables whose ... Read More

Using the characters like - , / or | and many other from the keyboard, we can create animation characters. These characters can be static as well as moving in the screen. All this involves programming using shell scripting. These scripts are bundled into libraries or packages which can be ... Read More

The hard disk in a computer is formatted with specific file system so that the operating system can read and write into it. For UNIX based systems we have various type of file systems. In this article we will see how to format a new partition in hard disk with ... Read More

We often need to customise the operating system to become useful to our own preferences like the language we want to use the time zone we are in the type of currency which would become the default currency in the OS etc. In this article we will see how to ... Read More

Sometimes there may be too many columns crammed into a single file. That makes it difficult to read the content of the file and point out which data belongs to which column. In order to have a better view, we ca use certain commands that will allocate space between the ... Read More

The Python dictionary has key and value pairs. In some situation we will need the items of the dictionary to be sorted according to the keys. In this article we'll see the different ways to get a sorted output from the items in the dictionary.Using Operator ModuleThe Operator module has ... Read More

Tkinter is the GUI building library of python. In this article we will see how we can create a collapsible pane. They are usefult when we have some large amount of data to be displayed over a GUI canvas but we do not want to be displayed always. It is ... Read More