How To Download Files In A Terminal Using The WGET Command

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Just when you thought that the terminal can’t get any niftier, here is another banger command that makes life easier. wget is a CLI utility that can download files from the web. wget can easily download files, websites, and even entire FTP directories. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. Unlike using a browser to […]

Manage Users in Linux Using USERADD and USERDEL

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From time to time (more so if you’re a homelabber or sysadmin) you’ll have to perform user management on your system. This can be accomplished by using the useraddand userdel commands. The useradd command allows admins to create new users, while userdel (as you can imagine) allows us to delete existing users. Let’s look a […]

How To Check Disk Usage in Linux with the DU Command

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Often times as system admins we ask ourselves how do we check the disk space on our system? There are loads of utilities out there that can accomplish this but today we will be covering the du command in linux. du (disk usage) is a Linux CLI utility that allows users to see the estimated […]

How To Remove Files in Linux with RM and SHRED

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All those files we create day in and out have to get cleared up somehow, which is why we have rm and shred. rm lets us remove files or directories in super simple way. shred goes further than rm by overwriting the file contents, with the option to also remove the file. Learning about these […]

Learn SSH Port Forwarding In 3 Easy Steps

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SSH Port Forwarding is a useful technique for securely connecting to remote servers and accessing their services as if they were local, which is discussed in a comprehensive article highlighting its benefits and the steps involved in setting it up.