After you’ve partitioned a hard disk, you can use mkfs command is used to build a Linux filesystem. This article explains 5 practical examples on how to use this command.
Please be careful while executing this command, as this will destroy all data on the device. So, use this only on your test system to understand how this command works.
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When you are using HTTP digest authentication, you need to specify the list of users who can access the secured page. Use the htdigest command as explained in this article to manipulate the password file that is used by Apache HTTPD digest authentication.
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What is file?
5 file examples
Syntax and Options
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The file command accepts a file as an argument and performs certain tests to determine the correct file type. For example text, executable etc.
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What is cc?
5 cc examples
Syntax and Options
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The cc compiler is the default compiler for Unix systems like Sun solaris. This is a powerful compiler used for compilation of C code.
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What is gcc?
5 gcc examples
Syntax and Options
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Gcc is the default GNU compiler. Its a very popular and powerful compiler used for compilation of C code.
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What is useradd?
5 useradd examples
Syntax and Options
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The Linux useradd command is used to create new users. This command is used to update default new user information.
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What is passwd?
5 passwd examples
Syntax and Options
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The Linux passwd command is used to change the password for a user account. A user can only change the password of his/her account but the superuser can change the password of any account. Besides changing password, this command can change other information like password validity etc.
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What is objdump?
5 objdump examples
Syntax and Options
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The Linux objdump command is used to display various types of information stored in object files. This command is mostly used while debugging or by the developers who are working on compilation tools.
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What is cat?
5 cat examples
Syntax and Options
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The cat command is used to print the contents of a file on standard output. If more than one files are given as arguments then this command concatenates the contents and produces the output. If no argument is provided then cat expects user to provide the contents through standard input.
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What is uname?
5 uname examples
Syntax and Options
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The uname command is used to print system information like kernel version, kernel release etc
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