When we work in terminal or command line, sometime we want to know in which current directory we are working. And sometimes we also want to know in which previous directory I worked.These requirement are simple but are very important for system administration. Information of working directory is also required in scripting. When system administrator … Read more
In Linux and Unix Systems, cd command is one the basic,essential and frequently use command.Abbreviation of cd is “Change Directory” . For Linux/Unix System Administrator, it is important to know by how many ways cd command can be used. In this post, I have listed 6 examples which will help you in your daily system … Read more
In this tutorial we will learn,how to set Message Of The Day ( motd ) on Linux systems. The motd abbreviation is “Message Of The Day”. The motd is widely used in Linux servers. Uses of MOTD ( Message Of The Day ) As the name defines, the motd is used for displaying message when … Read more
In this post we are explaining about type command with examples. In Linux system, type command is used for displaying information about command types. It displays if command is an alias,shell function, shell builtin, disk file, or shell reserved word. You can use type command with other command names also. With the help of type … Read more
When we execute any command or script,it returns an exit status. The exit status is also called as return code or exit code. It is important to know the exit status of command which we execute. The method which we are going to describe become more helpful with script also. Exit status must be an … Read more
In Linux and Unix systems, commands are executable files. The commands may be specific with user environment. We can set the absolute path of specific command as per user in environment. If we require the information, to get the absolute path of command. In that case we will use which command. To find the absolute … Read more