In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Git on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Git is a distributed version control system. Git is a free software designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git offers features like data assurance, workflows, create branches, revert to the previous stage, incredible speed, keep track of your code changes, view logs, and many more. It allows you to perform your work in offline mode and when ready, you need the internet connection to publish the changes and take the latest changes.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of Git on an AlmaLinux 8.

To manage Linux servers for hosting purposes most of the services are using WHM’s Cpanel. Although there are many hosting manager software, because of its easy-to-use interface and features, it is one of the best control panels for Web hosting services. And here we will know the steps to install cPanel & WHM on AlmaLinux 8.

Sysbench is an open-source and multi-purpose benchmark utility that evaluates the parameter features tests for CPU, memory, I/O, and database (MySQL) performance. This tool is important to benchmark the MySQL parameters especially when running a load of the intensive database. It is a freely available command-line tool that provides an uncomplicated and direct way to test your Linux system.
This article will provide you the details about the Sysbench command-line tool. We will discuss how to test the performance of Linux OS components through the sysbench utility as well. We have implemented all commands on the latest available Ubuntu 20.04 system.

VNC or Virtual Network Computing is a protocol used to access the graphical desktop environment of your computer and control it remotely.
In this article, I am going to show you how to install the VNC server on Debian 10 and access it from a remote computer. So, let’s get started!

Virtual Network Computing or VNC is used to access the graphical desktop environment of your computer and remotely control it. In this article, we are going to learn how we can install VNC Server on Debian 10 and access it from a remote computer as well as other necessary information it entails.

Vim is a text editor used in Linux operating systems that help create and update different text files with different extensions. Sometimes, when you try to create files with the Vim utility, you got an error: “Vim can’t open file for writing”. Reasons for this error could be more than one.

A working firewall is among the first layers of protection in protecting the cloud server. Previously, this was frequently achieved by the use of complex and obscure utilities. There seem to be a lot of features integrated into such packages or utilities, with iptables as perhaps the most common one lately, however learning and using them require some work on the part of the consumer. In this regard, UFW is a much more user-friendly choice. UFW or Unpretentious Firewall is an iptables front-end. Its key purpose is to make controlling the firewall as seamless as possible by including a user-friendly GUI. It’s well enough and famous in the Linux world, with many Linux distributions including it by default. As a result, it’s a flawless place to start when it comes to protecting your server.

Rsync stands for “remote sync”, which is a free and open-source command-line file synchronization utility used for transferring files and directories to local and remote destinations. It is an efficient utility as it only copies the changes from the source. Hence, it minimizes the amount of data copied to the remote destination. It is used for data backups, mirroring, and transferring data from one location to another.

Normally when you a copy file using rsync, it does not show any progress bar or the measure of speed or size of data transferred. During large file transfers, you may sometimes want to view the progress of the transfer and the size of the data transferred.

In this quick tip, we are going to show how to measure and show the progress of rsync when copying the files in Linux. We will also show you how to view the statistics of the file transfer.

The beauty of Linux-like systems is that it provides multiple command-line tools for a single operation. Whether you want to download software/packages or fetch any information from hardware/disk drives of the system, you will get several ways according to your needs while using Linux.

A command-line utility “lscpu” in Linux is used to get CPU information of the system. The “lscpu” command fetches the CPU architecture information from the “sysfs” and /proc/cpuinfo files and displays it in a terminal.

In Linux, the “whatis” command is used to offer a one-line overview of command, option, or a flag. Each manual section in Linux contains some definitions. This command looks for the manual and displays the description of the given keyword.

The date command depicts the date and time of the system. It permits the user to get both date and time in different formats. This command also helps in calculate current, past, and future dates with the help of different operators and format specifiers. For functionalities to be performed, the system clock and clock of the server should be precisely on time. Here are some examples that will increase your knowledge about the date command in Linux.

We can install multiple packages on Linux Mint to enhance the system functionality. A package contains multiple files and information. Searching the installed packages on the Linux Mint system is very straight-forward. We can easily search for the packages through the command line and Synaptic package manager application.

Parallel processing is the concept of running multiple processes simultaneously. This concept is the crux of today’s modern computer systems. In the very same manner, multiple commands can also be made to run in parallel, and today, we will learn how to do this on a Linux Mint 20 system.

Grep command is used to search text from files. It is a versatile pattern that invokes grep with –r. –R option search files recursively from subdirectories, starting from the current directory. The command is run from the top-level directory. For instance /home/abc etc. Grep is a tool for obtaining dependencies while moving from one host to another. If we do not mention a directory in the command, grep will search the current working directory. To perform grep recursively, there are three arguments that we have taken from the man page of grep.

The function of grep is to search the text and apply conditions to them. It is used for searching in more than one file. Grep can identify the text lines in it and decide further to apply different actions which include recursive function or inverse the search and display the line number as output etc. Special characters are the regular expressions used in commands to perform several actions like #, %, *, &, $, @, etc. In this article, we will use special characters. Grep allows the arguments as strings which are specified as a regular expression. It also has the ability to replace a word or a phrase in it. Special characters are not only used as a filename but also as data present inside the file.

A unit in systemd is described as any resource that the system is aware of and can be controlled. This is the basic entity for which the systemd knows how to handle with. These resources are stated in the configuration files, which are also known as unit files. Systemd uses these unit files to configure and control different resources like processes and filesystem. The unit file determines how the systemd starts and runs. The unit can of different types, and the most common of them is known as “service”. Unit files are placed under the /etc/systemd/system directory. Systemctl is used to manage services on systemd enabled systems.

In systemd unit files, you can make configuration changes in different ways. Whatever method you use, remember that whenever you make any changes to the systemd unit file, you will need to reload the systemd to pick up those changes.

Sometimes, it’s necessary to figure out the exact number of files available under a specific directory. The problem arises if the directory contains one or more sub-directories. Depending on the number of files and directories, manual counting can be virtually impossible.
In this guide, check out how to count files in a directory recursively in Linux.