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inxi – A Great Tool for Checking Hardware Information on Linux

January 6, 2017January 16, 2020 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 3 Comments.

Finding all the hardware information on a Linux system is a major challenge for the Linux administrator. Are you having trouble finding the right information about your Linux hardware? If …

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How to Create and Extract archive file using tar command

December 19, 2016February 27, 2023 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 1 Comment

The Linux tar command stands for tape archiver, is the most widely used archiving program designed to store multiple files in a single file (an archive). This is commonly known …

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Linux IP command with examples

October 19, 2016June 1, 2021 - by 2daygeek - Leave a Comment

IP command is similar to ifconfig, which is very familiar for assigning Static IP Address, Route, Default Gateway, and configure network interface parameters on Linux system. IP command replaces the …

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Googler – Google Search From The Linux Command Line

September 23, 2016September 24, 2017 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - Leave a Comment

Googler (the unofficial Google Site Search) is a power tool to Google (Web, News & Google Site Search) from the command-line. It shows the title, URL and abstract for each …

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Glances (All in One Place) – Advanced Real Time System Performance Monitoring Tool for Linux

August 26, 2016December 26, 2019 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - Leave a Comment

Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python. It uses the psutil library to retrieve information from your system. It’s accommodating all in one place, It shows …

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aria2 – A Command Line Multi-Protocol Download Tool for Linux

May 13, 2016April 1, 2021 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 6 Comments.

aria2 is a free, open source, lightweight multi-protocol and multi-source command-line download application. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. ‘aria2’ can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC …

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How to Create a Bootable USB Drive Using dd Command on Linux

April 19, 2016August 20, 2020 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - 1 Comment

Generally, we use GUI applications such as Etcher, BootISO and other applications to create a bootable USB drives on Linux. A bootable USB drive is required when you want to …

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wget – A Standard Command Line Download Utility For Linux

March 29, 2016April 1, 2021 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - Leave a Comment

wget (formerly known as Geturl) is a free, open source, command line download tool that retrieves files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely used internet protocols. It is …

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How to Install and Use YouTube-DL on Linux

March 18, 2016May 27, 2020 - by Magesh Maruthamuthu - Leave a Comment

youtube-dl is a small and powerful command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube and other sites such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google Video. It supports almost 1150+ websites. This requires the …

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How to Manipulate Images from Linux terminal

February 15, 2016March 26, 2021 - by Prakash Subramanian - 2 Comments.

I often work with images while preparing technical articles for 2DayGeek (this website). I take lots of screenshots as part of the article preparation and edit them before adding them …