Here are two interesting little tools, one of which should definitely be in your arsenal, and another that you still might find useful every now and again.
seq is, simply, a tool that prints out a sequence of numbers. For instance, run
seq -w 01 10
and it will output:
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 [...]
Today I’m not going to talk about any specific aspect of Linux, or any other operating system. Instead I’m going to talk about the OS from a more holistic perspective.
Operating systems, and programs, etc., need to present themselves to humans in a way that humans can understand. This seems like a no-brainer, but [...]
Today I’ll be covering a critically important part of Linux that gets no airtime at all, and that’s the shared memory subsystem. The closest you’ll come to it in most cases is seeing a /dev/shm filesystem when you type df. That is a recent development, however.
The shared memory subsystem came about because of [...]