Ubuntu

How To Access Windows 10 Drive/Folder in VirtualBox

To access Windows drive or folder in your Guest OS, you first of all, install VirtualBox guest utilities: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils You then Add a shared folder by going into: Setti

Using Pageant To Automatically Authenticate SSH key in Putty

I can't count how many times I have typed my ssh key passphrase whenever my ssh connection times out, it is so annoying and repetitive. Well, thanks to the putty pageant, you can do that seamlessly.

Send Mail with Attachment Using Mutt in GNU/Linux

Mutt is a powerful text-based mail client for Unix/Linux operating systems. It features color support, message threading, MIME support...

Mounting and Unmounting Cloud Storage With (Rclone) in GNU/Linux

Ever wondered if you could mount your preferred cloud storage as a virtual drive on your system? Thanks to Rclone, you can mount and access different kinds of cloud storage from a file manager, I'll

Installing WP-CLI In a GNU/Linux Server

WP-CLI is a command-line interface for WordPress. It can also be used with ClassicPress, as they are no differences in their usage, maybe just minimal if you are updating or downloading new ClassicPr

How To Configure and Enable Syntax Highlighting in Nano Text Editor

nano is one of the most popular, and friendly editor in GNU/Linux, it has several features that can boost the usability and easiness of the program. In the guide, you'll learn how to configure and en

How to Delete Mail Queue in Postfix

I had some issue with one of mailserver, where postfix keeps retrying to send mail to a mistyped email address, it was very frustrating considering this particular email was holding back thousands of

How To Send Mail To Multiple Addresses Using (mailx)

In this guide, you'll learn a couple of ways you can send mail to multiple addresses using mailx. mailx is a utility program for sending and receiving mail. I assume you already have mailx command, i

Access A Web Page In GNU/Linux Using (Links) [Web Browser in Text Mode]

Links is a text-mode World Wide Web (WWW) browses that can be used to view a web page either via a local (file://) or remote ((http:// or ftp://) URLs. To get started with Links, install it using the

Synchronize File With Cloud Storage Using [Rclone] In (GNU/Linux)

Rclone is an open-source command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. It preserves timestamps, and if you are transferring from local to cloud, it

Managing MariaDB Databases (Ubuntu Server)

In this guide, you'll learn how to manage MariaDB databases in your terminal, from connecting to the database server using the mariadb command, creating a database, removing (drop) database, and mana

Creating Command Aliases in GNU/Linux (Command Shortcuts)

As time goes on, you'll need to be super productive with the way you use commands in GNU/Linux, and one example is utilizing alias. Using alias allows you to create an additional equivalent name for

Monitoring Multiple Log Files In RealTime With MultiTail (Ubuntu)

Oh my... I really find scanning through the logs file time consuming, and painful. Luckily for me, I founded Multitail, which is an awesome, and powerful tool for not only browsing through several f

How To Find Files Using Locate in Ubuntu

It's kind of frustrating when you are searching for a particular file, and you have no idea of how to find it, In this guide, I'll walk you through on two different ways you can find a file in your G

Viewing Disk Usage in Ubuntu

There are several ways to view disk usage in your Linux system, and that is what we would be going over in this guide... Out of the box, Linux provides us the df command, which is the standard Unix c

Understanding the Linux Filesystem

Understanding the filesystem is important if you want to know how data is stored and retrieved, but really, the term might be somewhat confusing in Linux, as it means two different things. A filesys

Simple Way to Fix SSH Permission Denied (Public key) error

Most of the time when you encounter permission denied (public key) error, it is not because the public key doesn't exist but because the private key can't find the public key. If you are connecting f

Understanding & Using Symbolic & Hard Links (Ubuntu)

Have you ever wondered how you can create shortcuts that link to other files in Linux? Well, let me introduce you to symbolic and hard links. The two types of links in Linux are symbolic links and ha

Installing and Using NCDU (NCurses Disk Usage)

ncdu is a curses-based version of the well-known 'du' command and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space. What I love about this utility is that it can traverse the re

Finding Out File Using Up Disk Space With [du] in GNU/Linux

It is a bit annoying when your disk space gets full, and you have no idea what is eating up the disk space, well, let me introduce you to ducommand, with this command you can get the disk usage of t