htop, an interactive process viewer for Linux, it is a good alternative to top command. When you run htop, it will show you your usage per CPU, as well as a text graph of your memory and swap usage right at the top, all in a colored interface.
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10 great and powerful Linux commands you may need to know
Command line is more powerful because you can do lot with them, you can tell your computer exactly what you want and get the appropriate answer.
That is why most of us use the terminal at least once a day. Today we will see another List of useful commands, i`m sure that most of you didn`t hear about them before. Lets see .
Useful commands for Linux normal users and administrators
Recently, CLI is mostly used by Linux/Unix administrators since most popular linux distros come with a complete set of GUI applications that make the user use less and less the command line. In our previous post, we saw 11 useful commands for Linux/Unix administrators, in this post we will see a list of useful commands useful for both administrators and normal Linux users.
Common Linux log files name and usage
Log files are very valuable files for Linux system security. In Linux, almost all log files are stored in ‘/var/log‘ directory.
11 useful commands for Linux/Unix administrators
Command line is more powerful because you can do lot with them, you can tell your computer exactly what you want and get the appropriate answer, while GUI application can only tell your computer what the GUI programmer has defined. Recently, CLI is mostly used by Linux/Unix administrators since most popular linux distros come with a complete set of GUI applications that make the user use less and less the command line.
How to turn Off linux password expiration?
Question : How to turn off password expiration under Linux?
Bash scripting – Statements and variables
Now that we know how to create a very basic script and run them its time to get started on learning how statements and variables work. Every language has its
own way of using statements and variables, they might look slightly different when comparing one language to another, but they all have the same goal in mind. That makes bash scripting the ideal language to use as a stepping stone onto other programming languages, because once you understand the basics of programming you can easily work up to more difficult languages.
Bash scripting – Basics- I
If you have been using computers for a while, whether you have been using Unix, Windows or Mac operating systems, you’re probably already familiar with the
term shell. A shell is piece of software that is inbuilt into most operating systems which acts as an interface to the kernel and other software. Shells come in various shapes and sizes, but in most cases command line shells will always come with some type of scripting language which administrators can use.
whowatch- Linux and UNIX interactive, process and users monitoring tool
whowatch is a interactive, ncurses-based, process and users monitoring tool, which updates information in real time. This is a perfect tool for local and remote servers. It displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user’s process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. Display of users command line can be switch to tty idle time.
How to avoid sudo password prompt?
Question : How to avoid sudo password prompt ?




















