Command Line Basics: Monitor Processes With Top

February 28, 2010 by Linerd · 1 Comment
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There are many different GUI based process monitors available for Linux systems. It seems that each desktop environment or window manager has its own solution. The one common process monitor is the command line terminal based top command.

Give it a try. To run top, simply open a terminal window and enter: Read more

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Command Line Basics: Count Files

January 21, 2010 by Linerd · 3 Comments
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You may have an occasion that you want to know the number of files in a directory. There are a couple of simple ways to do this. The first way is to list the files with ls and count them with wc. No, wc doesn't stand for the place you go to relieve yourself; in this case, it stands for word count. The command looks like this: Read more

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