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In this video, we’re going to take a look at the vmstat command that reports on virtual memory usage. It vmstat, is a Linux command-line tool that provides stats on memory, paging, block IO, traps, disks and CPU activity.
This Linux tip explains the alias command and explains explore why it’s such a time saver – especially when you need to run complex commands.
In this Linux tip, we take a look at exit codes – the numeric codes that are generated when a command is run that indicate whether the command was run successfully or, if not, what kind of problem was encountered.
In this Linux tip, we look at lsblk – a command that is helpful for getting information on disk drives and block devices on your Linux system.
In this Linux tip, we take a look at the fdisk -l command that provides lots of details on disk partition tables.
In this Linux tip, we take a look at the du command that reports on disk space usage.
In this Linux tip, we look at file permissions on Linux in two ways.
In this Linux tip, we take a look at the whereis command. It’s a command that will tell you where the executable and the man page are for a command.
In this Linux tip, I show you how to start an infinite loop on the Linux command line. Well, at least it would keep running until something stopped it.
In this Linux tip, we look at the dstat command – a command that provides a lot of details about system performance such as CPU usage and disk activity.
In this Linux tip, we take a look at the iostat command – a command that provides stats on IO activity.
In this Linux Tip, learn to use the iotop command, which helps to monitor I/O usage for your disks.
In this Linux Tip, you'll learn to use the W diff command, which displays the content of compared files, showing one copy if the files are identical.
In this Linux Tip, you'll learn to use the sdiff command, which compares text files side by side.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the diff3 command. It’s similar to the diff command, but allows you to compare the contents of three text files instead of just two. In addition, the formatting of the output makes it easy to understand h...
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the colordiff command. It displays the differences between two files like the diff command, but adds color whenever the content is different. This first command has no output because the files are the same....
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the cmp command. It’s a command that allows you to compare the content of two text files. If the files that you are comparing are identical, there will be no output.
In this Linux tip, we’ll take a look at how you can test whether a string or variable includes some regular expression or substring you want to test for.
In this Linux tip, we’ll look at how you can use the grep command to look for more than one value in a single command. This can be useful when you want to select lines of two forms, but ensure they will appear in the same order as they do in the fi...
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at a command that allows you see how many days have passed since the beginning of the Linux epoch – Jan 1, 1970. To begin, we use the command below to display the number of seconds since the epoch began on J...
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