Linux Commands

In this guide, we are going to learn how to restrict SFTP user access to specific directories in Linux systems. SFTP, an acronym for Secure File Transfer Protocol is a secure file transfer protocol that runs over SSH. It offers all the features offered by the legacy FTP protocol but in a more secure manner. Restrict SFTP User Access to...

In this guide, you are going to learn how to run only specific commands with sudo in Linux. Our previous guide covered how to add user to sudo group to enable them to execute the commands with elevated privileges. How to Add Users to sudo group in Linux So it is possible to enable a user to run only specific commands with...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to add users to sudo group in Linux. More often than not, you want, as a non-root user, to run commands with elevated privileges in Linux. So the only way this can happen is to give user sudo privileges by adding them to a sudo group or to sudoers file. How...

Welcome to our guide on using find command to search for files and directories in Linux. find is a command-line utility that searches one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. It can also be use with other Linux/Unix commands to apply further...

Good day folks. Today, we would like to discuss how to extract log lines of specific dates from a log file. If you are a guy that sifts through a thousand logs in between the lines looking for something, then this article will best suit you. Extract Log Lines of Specific Dates from a Log File In this guide, we are...

In this guide, we are going to learn how to delete lines matching a specific pattern in a file using SED. SED is a stream editor that performs basic text filtering and transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). Delete Lines Matching a Specific Pattern in a File using SED In our previous guide, we covered...

This guide will take you through how to delete lines matching specific pattern in a file using VIM. Linux system admins work with files day in day out. At some point, you may want just to delete lines matching a specific pattern or a string in a file. There are quite a number of tools out there that you...

Good day all. This guides is about installing Perf performance analysis tool on Ubuntu 18.04. Perf, also known as perf_events is a powerful performance counter for Linux systems that gathers data about hardware events such as instructions executed, branches mispredicted or cache-misses suffered. It also provides very low overhead profiling of applications to trace dynamic control flow and identify hotspots,...

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install and use 7zip on Ubuntu 18.04/Ubuntu 20.04. 7zip is a free and open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, LZMA2, XZ, ZIP, Zip64, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM, ISO, most filesystem images and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new...