Linux

Very often new users would dwell on Google trying to find the correct command to find files containing specific text. This is particularly important when you’re tying to follow a badly written guide of forum post that says something like replace 0 with 1 in this line which will fix …

In Unix-like and some other operating systems, find is a command-line utility (Find Command Examples here) can be used to search through one or more directory trees of a file system, locates files based on some user-specified criteria and applies a user-specified action on each matched file. The possible search …

Before many started using Linux, we used Windows. One thing Windows gives you is plenty of softwares (well call them shareware’s if you want). In Windows did you use a download accelerator manager to download large files? Did you use FlashGet? or Internet Download Manager? Well, in Linux you can …

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 …

Installing fonts is important for those who are multilingual or want to spice up their screen. Many websites uses different fonts and without having to install fonts on Linux, you wont see those, you will see a flat boring default font. I will also show how to reconfigure your fontconfig …