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Linux provides commands for converting numbers from one base to another. Learn how to uses these commands and how to make the process easier with scripts and aliases.
There are many ways to loop through data on Linux using bash and many ways to generate the data to be looped through.
The zdiff and zcmp commands can see if Linux files differ and if so, how.
The highly compatible zip, unzip and zipcloak commands on Linux can help you create encrypted zip files and extract their contents as needed.
Linux provides a lot of useful commands for looking at users, their activity and their impact on the system.
The ac command can provide very useful summaries of how much time users spend logged into a Linux system. It gets its data from the wtmp file.
There are lots of sides to bash and much to know before you're likely to feel comfortable snuggling up to it. This post examines many aspects of this very popular shell and recommends further reading.
If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make the job easy.
The Linux aspell and enchant tools can both ID typos in text files and suggest replacements.
A tool called wikit provides an easy way to get information from Wikipedia without leaving the Linux command line.