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 [...]
Sometimes you can find interesting things to post about just by looking at what people are searching for. Here’s an interesting search query that I thought I’d address, because I certainly understand wanting to understand the “why” of things just as much as the “how”. Today’s query is:
“why sigkill and sigstop signals cannot [...]
Well, I’m back to it. I haven’t blogged here for a year or so for multiple reasons, such as changing jobs, moving, etc. I am now working as a Systems Engineer for another Internet company in Irvine, CA.
Anyway, right to it. Here’s a right useful tool. htop.
htop is useful because it [...]