When you’re building applications that need terminal-like functionality, embedding a full terminal emulator can feel like overkill. Enter Ptyxis—a lightweight, versatile tool for integrating terminal …

How to improve download speeds during system updates by adjusting the max_parallel_downloads setting in DNF.

In Linux systems, disk space management is crucial, especially when storage is running low. One often-overlooked aspect is the space reserved by the filesystem, known as reserved blocks. These blocks …

Most of the Social sites will shorten the links. There are a lot of ways to check the url before you go to the url and get phished :) For example, for bitly you can just add a ‘+’ at the …

I was looking at writing some output to files. The output did not vary much but the number of lines was huge. It was long time back so I dont remember the context of the requirement but I needed to …

Found x11docker project in github. This is a very nice project if you are trying to run GUI applications in dockers. It takes the hassle out and helps you run the GUI applications very easily in …

You can see the local IP of the machine with the command - ip a. However if you have to use the address in some variable in a scrit. It becomes little tricky, something like […] and the command …

Many times you get openvpn file and when you want to connect to the VPN server, you have to start the vpn client from the cli. How you wish that this was added to NetworkManager so that you could …

Sometimes just one line of code can make all the difference. I will show you with example. Here is script with 2 functions. Both are writing some lines of text to a file. First function, “a” I have …

Here is a quick command to show menu (applications) in simplistic windows managers with icons.

Lot of times you want to check the disk rpm, especially on the servers to check if it is 7.2K or 10K or 15K rpm disk. How do you do this from linux terminal. Here it is : sginfo -g /dev/<device> …

Lot of times, you have to ssh to a server with bastion host. If you dont know what is bastion host then see this: […] Now, in such cases, either you add an entry in “~/.ssh/config” to route the …