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Linux Monitor Processes Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) servers have a “top” command for monitoring processes. It’s top … chortle, chortle. When you are analyzing performance it can be that a live monitoring of a web server, for instance, might tell you more than a … Continue reading

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Linux Diskutil Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is an operating system whose very essence revolves around files. Files are stored on Disks and Volumes and you see this in play when we analyze the diskutil command that we access in a Linux environment on … Continue reading

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Rename Scenarios in Linux Shell Script Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is a command line environment that is really powerful regarding file management. This power is no surprise as the basis of Unix and hence, Linux, is that files are at the heart of the design of the … Continue reading

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Linux Background Primer Tutorial

Linux (or Unix) is a command line environment that supports interactive and non-interactive task management. Often non-interactive tasks are known as batch processes, often intended not to rely on any user intervention, unless there is a problem. In the pre-GUI … Continue reading

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PHP Show Linux Processes Primer Tutorial

The Linux (or unix) command ps shows process information at the command line of a Linux (or unix) operating system. The performance of your Mac laptop or web server can be monitored, albeit in a non-GUI rather crude way using … Continue reading

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Linux diff Primer Tutorial

The Linux (or unix) command diff is a powerful command line tool that does file comparisons at the command line of a Linux (or unix) operating system. When you are coding this type of tool can be very important. You … Continue reading

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Linux cURL Primer Tutorial

The Linux (or unix) command cURL is a powerful command line tool, that, if installed, may help you garner data by means of data scraping (or screen scraping, or, as in our case, web scraping) from the web, within the … Continue reading

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Linux and Unix Soft Links Primer Tutorial

Are there big differences between the Linux and Unix operating system, and Windows, for example? Deep at the heart of the very file orientated Unix and Linux operating systems (where just about everything can be boiled down to being about … Continue reading

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