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How to get command help in Linux

If you need to know about a command, ask for the “man” page. For example, to find out about the ls command, type $ man ls LS(1) System General Commands Manual LS(1) NAME ls – list directory contents SYNOPSIS ls [-ACFLRSTWacdfgiklnoqrstux1] [file ...] DESCRIPTION For each operand that names a file of a type other [...]

How to watch the disk space with Shell Script

df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted file systems is shown. Read man page of df if you are new to df command. Steps => Find disk space using df => Filter [...]

How to Support Compressed RAR File Types in Fedora

This entry aims to address file handling of RAR file types. If you are receiving this type of files from your inbox, you can configure your fedora linuxsystem to support RAR compressed file types. Fedora repository supports rpm package designed to handle and uncompressed RAR file types via unrar rpm package. UnRAR Installation – Support [...]

How to have e-mail delivered at special times

E-Mail delivery can be invoked by issuing the command “sendmail -q”. For those who are interested in what sendmail actually does, “sendmail -q -v” will give a more verbose version of the delivery process.

It is very convenient to automate the process of e-mail delivery. A tool commonly used for this process is cron.