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10 Lesser Known Effective Linux Commands - Part IV. Continuing the Lesser Known series, this fourth article of the series will let you know some useful funny and animated commands.

10 Lesser Known Effective Linux Commands - Part IV

Here we go into the practical session, without much theory. In the fourth article of this series which includes few other lesser known Linux commands, worth knowing. Might be you’re already aware of these commands, no doubt you’re an experienced Linux user and loves exploration. 32. strace Command The strace is a debugging tool which is used primarily for troubleshooting purpose in Linux. Trace a command execution using strace command: root@tecmint [~]# strace pwd Sample Output The strace command accepts a lot of arguments and have many options. 33. disown -a && exit Command Most of the system administrators use screen command to control jobs running in the terminal background.

The disown command is used to run the jobs continuously in the background even after you closing the terminal session. Root@tecmint [~]# Command; disown -a && exit 34. getconf LONG_BIT Command. Password Secrets of Popular Windows Applications. Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition. —1.

Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2014 Edition

Do you keep ANY logs which would allow you to match an IP-address and a time stamp to a user of your service? If so, exactly what information do you hold and for how long? 2. Under what jurisdictions does your company operate and under what exact circumstances will you share the information you hold with a 3rd party? 80+ Best Free Hacking Tutorials.

Learning to become hacker is not as easy as learning to become a software developer. I realized this when I started looking for learning resources for simple hacking people do. Even to start doing the simplest hack on own, a hacker requires to have in depth knowledge of multiple topics. Software architect Kristof Kovacs. Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line.

Software architect Kristof Kovacs

Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install most of them. (Thanks for the tips, everybody!) Dstat & sar iostat, vmstat, ifstat and much more in one. slurm Visualizes network interface traffic over time. vim & emacs The real programmers' editors. screen, dtach, tmux, byobu Keep your terminal sessions alive. multitail See your log files in separate windows. tpp Presentation ("PowerPoint") tool for terminal. xargs & parallel Executes tasks from input (even multithread). duplicity & rsyncrypto Encrypting backup tools. nethack & slash'em Still the most complex game on the planet. lftp Does FTPS. Ack, ag (silver searcher), pt A better grep for source code. calcurse & remind + wyrd. Five free network monitoring tools. Among the wide array of network and system monitors, you'll find several that do what the pricier tools do -- for free.

Five free network monitoring tools

If you're a system or network administrator, you need monitoring tools. You have to know, at all times, the status of your systems so you can optimize performance and head off potential problems. Thankfully, plenty of tools are available to help you stay in the know about your systems.

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