PuTTY is the most popular SSH client for Windows based systems. In fact it’s so popular that people actually install it in Linux (apt-get install putty)I. PuTTY is easy to use and you can save a lot of preferences. However, is PuTTY is best? To be honest, I think not. …
Read More »Random quotes and creatures using fortune and cowsay in Linux terminal
fortune is a simple program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations that first appeared in Version 7 Unix. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally written by Ken Arnold. Distributions of fortune are usually bundled with a collection of themed files, …
Read More »View compressed .gz files without uncompressing using Z commands in Linux
How often you bumped into a .gz file where you need to check the contents? I know I do quite often. A gz file is a compressed file created with gzip and I didn’t knew better, I would copy the file into another folder, uncompress it and then look into …
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