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This tutorial will show you how to use nested commands in linux so that you can use the output of one command to finish another.

Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive. Built from the same guts as the andLinux system that lets you seamlessly run Linux apps on your Windows desktop, [...]

Obviously you shouldn’t use this to gain unlawful access to a computer. If you’re a geek, however, you’ll eventually end up in a situation where someone forgets their password, you acquire a machine with an operating system you cannot access, or similar situation.

If you want to install Ubuntu 9.10 in your flash drive then you can do it by using a simple to use software named LiLi USB Creator (Linux Live USB Creator). This software offers lot many other features related to installation of Linux dstributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Puppy Linux and many more in a [...]

Currently, file copying utilities such as cp, scp, rsync etc. are not able to resume where they left off after a failed copy operation. In this article, a solution is provided using the utility dd to pick up where cp left off. Read on for more.

The GPG key (which means Gnu Privacy Guard, aka GnuPG) can be used for many things like signing your packages, sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct, etc. I am writing this how-to because I plan to write an article on creating .deb packages the right way, and for that you will need to sign them [...]

The find command is used to locate files on a Unix or Linux system. 1find will search any set of directories you specify for files that match the supplied search criteria. You can search for files by name, owner, group, type, permissions, date, and other criteria. The search is recursive in that it will search [...]

The ‘ dd ‘ command is one of the original Unix utilities and should be in everyone’s tool box. It can strip headers, extract parts of binary files and write into the middle of floppy disks; it is used by the Linux kernel Makefiles to make boot images. It can be used to copy and [...]

If you have an Ubuntu installation, and want to check what version it is, you have a number of options. One of the methods is to run 1more /etc/issue This will return something like this: 1Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l But this isn’t the best way. You need to use uname command, which prints system information [...]

Minitube is a native YouTube client for Linux and Mac OS X. The really useful part about Minitube is that it does not require Flash Player. The application allows you to watch the movies in full screen and very important: it requires no installation; but you do need Qt version >= 4.5 and the Phonon [...]