Search for Empty Directories from Command Line
Locating and removing empty directories is easy with the find command. Below are the two simple commands to find and delete empty folders from your
Basic file and directory-based commands
ls -la – for listing folder contents, where the l option stands for long listing and the a option stands for all files (including the ones starting with a dot) touch – for creating
Linux – Move to the beginning or end of the line
In this post, you will learn how to move to the beginning and to the end of the line from your bash window. You can
Linux – Switch back to the last working directory
In this post, I will share a useful tip to switch back to the last working directory. Using this tip you can navigate back to
How to change the History File Name
In this tutorial, you will learn how to change the history file name. The default value is ~/.bash_history We can easily change the name of
How to add Date and Time to Bash History
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add the date and time to bash history. Sometimes it would be very useful to know when
How to Increase the size of the Bash history
In this, tutorial you will learn to adjust the size of the Bash history. The default size of history in Ubuntu is 1000 and it
Create and Use Alias Command in Linux
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create and use custom alias commands in Linux. You can see a list of defined aliases on
How to download YouTube live stream video in chunks
In this tutorial, we gonna download YouTube live-stream video in chunks for the given interval. We gonna run a few commands in the terminal for
How to create an SSH shortcut
In this post, I would like to show you a quick way to SSH into VMs. Using this approach you don’t have to type ssh
How to send emails from shell script using sendgrid
In my recent project, we have developed a small process monitoring system to check the health of the process and it should send emails if
How to disable IPv6 on Ubuntu
In this post, I will show you disabling IPv6 on your Ubuntu machine. Before going further, let’s check the current status of the IPv6 on
How to delete files older than X days in Linux
In this post, I am gonna show you how to write a simple shell script to delete files from a directory if the files are
How to install the management plugin, RabbitMQ
By default, RabbitMQ does not embed a web-based management console but offers it as an optional plugin. This management console makes it very easy to
How to install and setup RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 16.04
In this post, I will show you how to install RabbitMQ on Ubuntu 16.04. We can install RabbitMQ easily using Ubuntu’s package manager, apt. The