Without a Network Interface Controller (NIC), we cannot have connectivity to the network on our Linux system. Therefore, quickly knowing our NIC firmware version to update or install drivers and troubleshoot other network-related issues becomes essential, ensuring network hardware compatibility and optimal performance. So, to …
New users would take time to deal with things in Linux, which are relatively simple in GUI. For example, in Linux without GUI, the only way to deal with files, like renaming them, is to use the command terminal, and if you don’t know how …
Unzipping and extracting Tar.gz files is routine work for a system administrator or developer, so we’ve created a tutorial on extracting Tar.gz files easily using the command line. What is a tar.gz File? A tar.gz file combines TAR (Tape Archive) and GZ (Gzip) compression. Both …
The Systemctl utility manages Systemd processes. It consists of libraries, demons, and management utilities that replaced the SysV init daemon. You can use Systemctl to manage resources and services (start, stop, restart, enable, disable). Moreover, Systemctl checks service status to gain deeper insights into them. …
The “traceroute” command tracks the path of network packets from the source to the destination. It is used to identify issues with network connectivity and detect packet loss or delay. The traceroute command provides insights into the number of routers between the internet source and …
AWK is a cross-platform programming language designed for Linux/Unix by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan. However, unlike any common Linux command, it is a complete text-processing engine. AWK was built for text processing and is typically used for data extraction and reporting, and …
Do you want to find the public IP address of your cloud server or any machine running Linux distros such as Ubuntu, RHEL, AlmaLinux, Oracle, Debian, etc.? Then, the commands in this article will surely help you a lot. Finding the public IP address of …
If you are using a Linux distro without a graphical interface then to find the IP address you have to use the command line interface. Here in this article, we learn the multiple commands that can be used to get information about networking configuration. Finding …
Learn how to select a folder name to extract Tar or Tar.gz compressed archives, so that it automatically saves the files in our desired location while extracting them. What is Untarring? As we know Tar is a popular command utility in Linux systems for Archiving …
While working in Linux you would have seen files downloaded from the internet ended up with either “.tar” or “.tar.gz”. Now, what are these extensions? Both of these imply the file is in Archived format that could contain a single file or multiple folders but …