System & Network Admin

A loop device is a pseudo-device which doesn’t correspond to a real, physical block device, but can be used to make a file appear and be treated like one. To manage loop devices on Linux…

If you are a sysadmin, managing your Linux server’s hard disk partition is a critical task. In this tutorial, we’ll focus on how to use sfdisk command-line utility to manage your hard disk partitions. While sfdisk is similar to fdisk, there are few partition manipulation activities that are very easy to perform in sfdi

Mattermost is an open-source alternative to Slack and Microsoft Teams. It allows you to self-host online chat and offers many features, such as file s...

Syncthing is an open-source, peer-to-peer file synchronization tool designed to sync files across multiple devices securely. This tutorial will show y...

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A guide on how to increase the size limit of a Git commit to avoid this error.

PDFtk is a simple tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. It comes in three flavors: PDFtk Free, PDFtk Pro, and our original command-line tool PDFtk Server.

In this article, you’ll learn how to monitor your Apache web server’s load and track requests using the mod_status module.

Typical ways of testing microservices are too slow and unsustainable as engineering teams grow and architectures grow more complex.

Learn how to run MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and other stateful applications on Kubernetes in this step-by-step tutorial.

I've been trying to create a new Raspbian image with a different kernel (with CAN support) and with Python 3.3 installed. Rather than doing all of this on the Raspberry Pi, I thought it would be

Unzip is a command line tool that allows you to list, test, and extract compressed zip archives. In this article, we will explain how to use the unzip command to unzip files in Linux systems.

Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up. Read any fuzz testing tutorial, and the first task is an hour of building tools from source and chasing down dependencies upon dependencies. I recently found that Nix eliminates a lot of the gruntwork from fuzz testing. I created a Nix configuration that kicks off a fuzz testing workflow with a single command.

This cross-platform file manager, for both Linux and Mac, shows serious promise once a few rough edges are smoothed out.

The .htaccess file is a powerful configuration file used on Apache-based web servers to manage and modify settings at the directory level.

m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems, and is a component of the POSIX standard.

How do I assign printf command result to a shell variable under Unix like operating systems?

How can I get video duration in seconds? What I've tried: ffmpeg -i file.flv 2>&1 | grep "Duration" Duration: 00:39:43.08, start: 0.040000, bitrate: 386 kb/s mediainfo file.flv | grep

Here's a Shell script I created to automate a task that used to take a bunch of steps to do manually.

Ever found yourself puzzled over how to return a value from a Bash function? You're not alone. Many developers find this concept a bit tricky. Think of Bash

1. Introduction

a bash one-liner

Your guide to learning Nix and flakes