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In this short article, you will learn how to copy one file into many directories. The obvious answer would be to use the cp command but this not exactly correct since the cp command is rather used to copy several files into one directory. You will see what additional commands and combinations are needed to pull this off. Let’s get started.

In this article we will show some of the best download manager applications for Linux Ubuntu and similar distros. This kind of software is a must for every new and professional Linux user. You will hopefully find some guidance to choose the right download manager that suits your needs.Let’s get started

How to Google search from Linux terminal – Build your own search engine

As computers become more powerful and more efficient, they rapidly drain their batteries because they consume more electricity. While this might depend on the number of running applications, laptop moans are mainly caused by battery life especially when they are not plugged in throughout the day.

On Linux operating system, the messages that are triggered by the kernel, by the system services and by the running applications are written and stored on log files. Different types of information are stored on different log files, for instance, security messages are stored on a specific log files, cron tasks log their messages on another log file and so forth.

As with all large data sets, filtering is necessary to analyze, inspect and diagnose the system. In this article, you will learn about journalctl’s advanced filtering options which could be very useful for system administrators.

In most Ubuntu and similar Linux distributions, the systemctl tool has replaced power management commands that were used in previous releases.

In this short article, you will learn how to merge or split two or more PDF files using command line and GUI based tools. This is suitable for both beginners and experienced Linux users, so let’s get started.

PDFTK is a versatile command line utility that is used to manipulate PDF documents. It has the possibility to perform simple and complex actions on PDF documents such as merging, encrypting, splitting (including removing specific pages) , decrypting, compressing, decompressing and repairing PDF files

Gunzip It is a utility that decompresses files such as images, documents and audio tracks. Gunzip accepts many file extensions such as .gz, -gz, _z,.z, -z , .Z, .tgz or .taz. After applying gunzip, the original file’s extension will be restored.

Usually when you have Ubuntu installed, it is likely that the system folders and the home folder all belong to the same partition.In order to keep your custom settings, your files and folders, it is recommended that you put your home folder in a specific partition so that future alterations on the system files and folders will not have any effect on the home folder so that you would be able to upgrade or even reinstall your Ubuntu without damaging the current custom files configuration.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use two simple and lightweight command line tools to help you analyze the space usage of your files and folders both on your local machine and on a remote system.

Every Linux user should know how to add and/or create a user as well as how to delete a user. This is important since on a fresh installation there is only one root user and most Linux distros are multi-user operating systems.

The ‘useradd’ command in linux is a popular tool used to create or add user accounts.Much like the command ‘usermod’, the ‘useradd’ command affects many files when it is invoked to create a new user account, namely, /etc/shadow, /etc/passwd, /etc/gshadow , /etc/login.defs, /etc/group

Services which are also known as daemons, are scripts and programs that run in the background. These services, which require no user input, can provide many functionalities like database services (such as MySQL), or web server services (like Tomcat) etc…

The Linux file system comes originally from UNIX and thus follows UNIX traditions. This is why for instance it uses the forward slash instead of the back slash as in Windows. Linux also differentiates between uppercase and lowercase letters, .e.g. the file with the name tesT is different than the file named TEst and so forth.

You may have noticed as a Linux user (here we will focus on Ubuntu, but this applies to major distros), that your system has rather been slow or sluggish over time despite the powerful hardware of your computer. Some processes or services take longer times to execute even though the processor is capable of handling a high number of tasks at ease

One of the most commonly used commands to compress and extract files is ‘tar’. The tar tool, which stands for ‘tap archive’, is one of the most important utilities for system administrators in the Unix/Linux world. The tar command creates .tar.gz or .tgz files which are also called ‘tarballs’.

In today’s digital world, we often need graphic contents that are visually appealing to the eye. Whether they will be used in a website, advertisement poster or other purposes, eye-catching graphics can pay big dividends can make viewers more attracted to the content. All the stunning graphic work is done by graphic design software these days.

Ubuntu 19.04 disco dingo is a new release in the Ubuntu line-up. Ubuntu 18.04 is an LTS (long term support) release, so it gets support for the next 5 years after the release. Ubuntu 19.04 is not an LTS release and will only be supported up to 9 months