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Zypper is command line interface in SuSE Linux which is used to install, update, remove software, manage repositories, perform various queries, and lot more.

MariaDB is a Open Source database Server & It is 100 % compatible with MySQL, drop-in replacement to MySQL database server.

Linux Mint is a Linux based desktop level operating system for the home users and companies can use it at no cost and which is as efficient, easy to use, and elegant as possible.

wget is a Linux/UNIX command line file downloader.Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. wget is a Linux/UNIX command line file downloader.Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on.

There are some scenarios where unix admin wants to run unix commands and insert the output of unix command in vi editor without leaving it.

xargs command is very handy when combined with other commands. By default it expects input from STDIN. xargs command is very handy when combined with other commands. By default it expects input from STDIN.xargs is basically used to enhance the output of the initial command and utilize the output for performing numerous operations.

OpenSUSE is the most widely used linux distribution. It is free / opensource which is suitable for laptops, desktops, netbooks, servers and multimedia center PCs at home or in small offices.

Google has not released its official linux client for accessing its drive from the ubuntu. But open source community has developed unofficial package called 'grive-tools'.

After the release of Redhat enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7) , CentOS community has released its Latest Operating System named as CentOS 7.

badblocks is the command or utility in linux like operating system which can scan or test our hard disk and external drive for bad sectors.

Awk is a scripting language which is used for processing or analyzing text files. Or we can say that awk is mainly used for grouping of data based on either a column or field , or on a set of columns.

In every programming language variables plays an important role , in Linux shell scripting we are using two types of variables : System Defined Variables & User Defined Variables.

Dealing with our daily admin tasks we face lot of requests where we need to assign virtual disks or additional disks to Virtual Machines running on Xen hypervisor.