Commands

In Unix-like systems, ss (Socket Statistics) is a command used to display the network statistics. It is simpler and faster than the now deprecated netstat command. The ss command is used with some other commands such as the IP command to get useful network information and troubleshoot the network issues. In this article, I will … Read more

The Linux comm is a command that compares two sorted files and finds the common and distinct lines in both. By default, the output contains three columns the first column shows the non-matching or unique lines of the first file, the second column shows the non-matching lines of the second file, and the third column … Read more

The exit command is used to exit from the current shell in a Linux or Unix system. Probably you may have used it before if you ever worked with a Linux or Unix terminal. You can use the exit command with or without parameters if no parameters are provided it will return the status of … Read more

The iwconfig command in Linux is similar to ifconfig command but instead of configuring all types of network interfaces, it is used specifically to display and configure different parameters of a wireless network interface. For example, you can configure the SSID, frequency, and password, or encryption type of a wireless network. In this article, I … Read more

There are a lot of ways in Linux using which you can power off your system or schedule your system to power off at a specified time. Scheduling a systems power-off can be very useful in situations such as system updates is in progress and you want to shutdown it once the update is completed. … Read more

The cfdisk is a partition editor program in Linux that can be used to create, delete and modify partitions on a system. It supports the partitioning of the disk that uses MBR, GPT, BSD disklabel, and SUN disk labels. cfdisk has a terminal-based menu interface that shows a list of all disks and partitions with … Read more

When you execute a command in a Linux system it starts a process and when you exit from the terminal it gets automatically terminated. In some situations, you may want to keep running a process even after exiting from the terminal. So how will you do that? Well, we can use nohup (No Hang Up) … Read more

The nslookup ( name server lookup ) command is used to get information from a DNS server. This information can include IP address details, MX record of a name server, etc. It is used for troubleshooting DNS-related problems on a system. This command usually works in two modes interactive and non-interactive modes. In interactive mode, … Read more