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This brief tutorial explains how to copy specific file types while keeping the directory structure in Linux.

List symlinks or symbolic links or soft links in Linux.

Ubuntu has a feature named Unattended Upgrades, which installs the latest security updates automatically. This guide describes how to disable unattended upgrades on Ubuntu.

Install restic and how to backup and restore data using Restic on Linux.

This brief guide explains how to solve "vboxdrv.sh: failed: Cannot change group vboxusers for device /dev/vboxdrv." Virtualbox error in Ubuntu.

Vim is one of the best, highly configurable text editor that comes with a lot of unique features that you can’t find in other text editors. Today, we will discuss one of the useful feature – editing remote system’s files from the local system. This guide explains how to edit remote files with Vim on Linux.

This brief guide explains different ways to repeat your last command in Linux operating systems with practical examples.

Syndaemon is command line program that monitors the keyboard activity and disables the Touchpad when the keyboard is being used.

Auto-cpufreq is an automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux. Learn how to automatically optimize CPU speed and power with auto-cpufreq.

This guide explains how to backup and restore Linux desktop system settings with Dconf tool. It is useful when you want to transfer same system settings after reinstalling Linux desktop.

This brief tutorial explains different ways to remove unnecessary configuration files from Debian-based operating systems.

ffsend is a fully featured CLI client for Firefox Send. This article explains how to securely share files from commandline with ffsend on Linux.

Firefox Send is a free and open source online file-sharing service that allows you to easily and securely share files up to 2.5 GB over Internet.

Whether you are a regular user or developer or system admin, you can create and launch Ubuntu VMs with Multipass instantly in a matter of seconds in Linux.

ddgr is a command line client for DuckDuckGo search engine. This guide explains how to search DuckDuckGo from commandline using ddgr in Linux.

This guide explains how to do Google search from commandline on Linux using Googler command line tool.

This brief guide lists three different methods to check if you are in Screen session or not in Linux operating system.

This brief tutorial explains how to reset Root user password in CentOS 8 and RHEL 8 server editions from emergency mode or single user mode.

This guide explains how to automatically start Screen session on Linux when logging in. Auto-starting Screen sessions wil be useful when running long running process via SSH.

This brief tutorial explains how to limit the number of SSH logins per user or group or system on Linux using /etc/security/limits.conf file.