How-To: using Python Virtual Environments
A nice thing about Python is that there is tons of modules available out there. Not all those modules are readily available for your distro and even if there...
tools
How-To: tail multiple files with multitail
Many times you will end up tailing multiple files simultaneously. There is a sweet linux utility called multitail that will let you tail multiple files at th...
How-To: find which program consumes your bandwidth with nethogs
Let’s continue the network monitoring serie with yet another use case…. the “What program is using my bandwidth?” problem while not imposible to solve, still...
How-To: monitor network bandwidth usage with vnstat
There is many tools out there that help in monitoring network usage, collect statistics and generate graphs so we can view what happened at a given date/time...
How-To: Bash Parameter Expansion and String Manipulation
Last time we saw how bash can help us in handling default values out of the box using parameter expansion. This time we will see how basic string operations ...
How-To: Bash Parameter Expansion and Default Values
Bash is a sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. There is much more to bash than run...
Mastering Top
top is most likely one of the most known Linux command and also one of the most used one, however most people do not take full advantage of its capabilities.
How-To: Tmux a Terminal Multiplexer
As a sysadmin, most of my time is spent working on remote machines and different task. tmux is a terminal multiplexer, meaning it allows you to run multiple ...