The difference between hard link and soft link is somewhat confusing. It confuses the beginning and sometimes experienced system administrators as well. In this article I’m trying to explain the difference between the two theoretically and practically as well. Before starting I’ll layout foundation by just explaining some simple necessary terms.
Yesterday’s black and white server operating systems: Linux are becoming tomorrows desktops as well. With the increasing interest of open source community towards desktops, Linux is capturing desktops market also. With every new release Linux is getting out even more promising. Moreover the Linux desktops are quite fast, secure, interesting, beautiful and above all ABSOLUTELY FREE. After watching this video I literally got fan of it and right away started using it.
It’s not an uncommon requirement for Unix system administrators to know the difference between two files. The diff command in Unix serves the purpose. Here I am going to discuss the diff command. It’s quite common but little understood command. I hope after reading this article, the Unix visitors will be able to understand the usage properly and benefit from it. Here you go…
Those working in Unix environment must be aware of the requirement to find common
lines between two Unix files. In this article I’m gonna introduce you to solve this problem.
In Unix, sometimes we come across situations where we need to join two files’ output side by side vertically. This is also referred to as vertical joining of files. In such situations, paste command comes handy. With the help of this command you not only can vertically join the files, but insert some delimiter as well….
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If fsck or mount commands give errors then pretty good chances are there that the superblock is corrupt. The dd command comes to rescue. We know that the superblock resides in 31st block also. So, to recover that we use [...]
Often its the requirement of system administrators to move the directories in between the servers. Also the confusion arises which utility to use for the best results. Normally zip, tar, cpio utilities are used the most. I’m writing a short introduction of zip and tar.
In Unix environment it’s often required to print specific columns from a file. If the rows of file are having some proper delimiters then other Unix command like awk come into picture and quite handy. But if say you want to print out the 5th character and then 7th to 16th character, then other commands fail and in such situations the cut command comes to rescue. Here is short primer of cut command.
