Linux And Friends

Cron is a time based task or job scheduler available on Linux/Unix operating systems. A job scheduler executes tasks on your computer at adjustable regular intervals. What this means is – suppose you have to carry out a task on your computer that needs to be repeated at regular intervals, then you can pass the [...]

Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption tool that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. One of the chief advantages of using bcrypt (apart from the security aspect) is that it runs on a wide variety of OS platforms and hardware architectures. This includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, HP-UX etc. This means, you can [...]

If you are stuck with a bunch of text files which contain a factual error and you urgently need to correct the same, then the obvious recourse would be to open each text file individually and search and replace the text. This process is very laborious and time consuming especially if the number of text [...]

Imgopt is a bash script that makes use of different image optimization command line tools to drastically reduce the size of your JPEG and PNG images with minimal loss in quality.

PC-BSD is a Free Operating System which has been designed with the casual user in mind. It is based on FreeBSD and is geared for desktop use by the end user. Not surprisingly, there are a whole lot of user friendly features found in PC-BSD which make installing and using this operating system a snap. [...]

pwd is a Linux / Unix command which prints the current working directory. If you wish to know the full path of the  directory in which you are in from the Linux console, then the pwd command will come to your rescue. pwd stands for Print Working Directory. If you check the man page of [...]