THE INDEPENDENT LINUX BLOG
Practical notes from the command line.
For the curious, the builders, and the ones who ask why.
# Start with a little curiosity.
~ $ echo {1..10}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
# There's always more to discover.
~ $
Check charge, charging state, estimated runtime, and capacity retention on Ubuntu with Settings, UPower, sysfs, and acpi.
THE FIELD NOTES
In 2026, the "real-world" Linux administrator at a large enterprise is no longer just a "fixer" — they are a Platform Engineer. The focus has shifted from managing i
Efficiency: Command-line interfaces (CLI) can be more efficient for many tasks, allowing you to perform complex operations with simple commands.
As a cloud engineer, mastering advanced Linux commands is crucial for efficient cloud management. Here's a list of the top 10 commands you should know:
How to use curl to get network connectivity performance stats
The net-tools set of packages had been deprecated years back, although the commands are still being in use. Tools such as netstat and ifconfig are part of the net-to
Linux / Bash – generate a sequence of numbers
In Ubuntu, the command "dpkg" is a tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. And aptitude("apt") is commonly used a frontend for dpkg. For instance,
Every visit to a site such as google.com starts with resolving the domain name or FQDN to an IP address. And this resolution is done by a dns service. The domain nam
systemd-resolve is a CLI tool for resolving domain names, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, DNS records and services.
KEEP EXPLORING
One question. One command. One discovery at a time.