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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
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
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,
Most users are interested in the content they receive when they visit a web site. There is an extra information web clients and servers exchange - HTTP headers. HTTP
In Unix, everything is a file. In this particular case though we will be demonstrating how to create a text file. Of course, these are some of the many ways of creat
TL;DR - use .dockerignore file, Docker's equivalent of .gitignore for git
If you are looking for a Linux and programming cheat sheet, please checkhttps://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
curl is a tool to interact with a server for transferring data. Although it supports various protocols, it is most commonly used with HTTP/S. It is sort of a browser
The tree command is a popular utility which lists the contents of a directory in a tree format, and it also allows users to specify the display depth of the director
While running a performance test on a local web service, I encountered below error -