find is the Unix/Linux command line utility used for searching files across the file system. Sometimes we need to search files modified in last few days. Assume you have modified multiple files in your application and forgot to keep track of the modified files. In that case, find command provides you an option to...
In this tutorial you will learn, how to create shortcut commands on Linux. This is you can say a short name of any command. In you daily work, you use multiple commands very frequently. You can create a shortcut of those commands, which help you to use easier. Alias is an Linux command provides...
Sometimes we need to find actual number of files available under a directory. But it directory contains multiple sub directories. Then it is hard to manually count number of files within a directory in Linux system using command line. find DIR_NAME -type f | wc -l find – Is a Linux/Unix command DIR_NAME –...
The Linux operating system consider everything as file. So first of all, use lsof (List of Open Files) Linux command to identify the process id (PID) of running process on any port. The you can use kill command to kill that process using the PID. Kill Process on Port For example, you need to...
Some times we faced issues like “Too many open files” on a Linux system. It means our server has hit the max open file limit. This happens due to resource limits set by the system for any user or session. For example, the max size of files created, the maximum size that may be...
This tutorial will help you to find files created or modified within X days. Here X means any number. Using the find command you can also search which is created or modified within X minutes. 1. Search files created/modified within 30 days Use this command to search all files created or modified within 30...
This tutorial will help you to find files created or modified before X days. Here X means any number (eg: 1,2 or 30). Using find command you can also search which is created or modified before X minutes. 1. Search files created/modified before 30 days Use this command to search all files created or...
Question – How do I sort du -h command output by there sizes? In the GNU Coreutils >= 7.5 package, sort command provides -h parameter allows to compare human-readable numbers (e.g., 10K 15M 1G etc). This helps up to compare the results of `du -h` and short them. du -h * | sort -h...
SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol. This works over ssh protocol for secure file transfer between two remote systems. The latest OpenSSH servers have default configured SFTP server for you. You can also use this or this tutorial to configure sftp only user on your Linux system without SSH access. Connect to SFTP Use...
For example, you are running time-consuming processes and you don’t want that job killed due to terminal closed. To handle this situation, you can simply remove a job from an active job table. So that the job will not be killed when the terminal is closed. Instructions Follow the below instruction to detach running...