One of the advantages in having bigger hard drives is that we hardly worry about the available space. However, there comes a time, you want to clean up unwanted files and want to free up space really quick. One way to do that is to find the largest files and remove them if they are […]
How to Create a Soft link to a Directory in Linux/Mac OS X?
If you are using a really long path to reach a directory (my/really/long/path/to/the/directory) frequently, it will get painful to type the long path every time to get there. Well, the command “ln -s” offers you a solution by letting you create a soft link. The ln command in Linux creates links between files/directory. The argument […]
How to Move Around using Vim on Terminal?
Vim is one of the most powerful editors available for the terminal. One may think moving around the page is little painful, as the page up and down keys do not work in Vim in the default setting. Vim offer multiple ways to move around the Vim page. With just two keystrokes you can move […]
Basic Linux/Mac OS X Commands that Help You to Get Started
Typically the learning curve of Linux commands is bit slow and scare people away from it. But the piece of advice that is worth is “Hang on!, You will see the fruits of your frustrations soon”. Linux organizes everything in directories. For example, if you are a linux user, your account is just another directory. […]