Linux Fledglings

In our last post we discussed how to stack multiple files and directories to create a single tar archive. In most cases these archives needs to be compressed  and in order to perform compression additional compression programs need to be used. In this post we are discussing two such programs, gzip and bzip.

Data archiving in Linux is the method of  storing one or more files into a single file for backup or distribution (transferring files locally or through network)  purpose. There are many tools available in Linux that can perform data archiving. In this post we will discuss  about tar, which is the basic command line archiving utility available in Linux. tar command can archive files on a local disk as well as on a tape device. Similarly it can extract data from an archive file as well as from the tape device. The syntax of tar command is

In our earlier post regarding standard wildcard we saw how wildcards are mostly used with shell commands to replace or represent  one or more characters. Eventhogh similar to standard wildcard, a regular expression or regex is a method of using a sequence of characters to match a wider range of search patterns. In this tutorial I will try to explain regular expressions using grep, awk and sed commands. Before that lets see different regex operators and their meanings.

sed is a *nix stream editor command with the ability to filter and transform input text files line by line. sed command works very well with awk command and they are used together by System Administrators to simplify day to day activities. The syntax for sed command is sed [options] commands <input-file> In the earlier post we saw how to print, quit and delete a particular line with sed command. In this second of the two post series on sed we will cover 3 more widely used commands. They are  Substitute (s/../../) command Change (c \) command Insert (i \) command 

sed is a *nix stream editor command with the ability to filter and transform input text files line by line. sed command works very well with awk command and they are used together by System Administrators to simplify day to day activities. The syntax for sed command is sed [options] commands <input-file> One thing that distinguishes sed from other editors are its ability to filter text in a pipeline. In this first of the two post series on sed we will cover 3 of the most often used commands. They are Print (p) command Quit (q) command Delete (d) command

Whether you are checking your hardware's  warranty or trying to raise a support ticket, the first thing your hardware vendor will ask is the serial number and model name of your your Laptop/PC/Server. In most cases a laptop's serial number is printed at the bottom and for a  PC or a Server, it will be located at the rear side. But what if the serial number printed is tampered or faded. What if the machine is located in a remote location. In such situations we use dmidecode command to obtain the hardware details.