Linux by Examples

Python is the best scripting language which I found it out perform Bash script as well as Lua. I like python’s scripting syntax, which is make sense and very convenient in string manipulations. It...

I remember I wrote a post regarding how to makes python processing string from the pipeline stream. This time, I find the needs to do it in bash script.
I created a hex string splitter script for m...

History is a common command for shell to list out all the executed commands. It is very useful when it comes to investigation on what commands was executed that tear down the server. With the help ...

XSLT stand for XSL transformation, and XSL is EXtensible Stylesheet Language, it is XML-based Stylesheet Language defined by W3C. XSLT is one of the famous XML technology, XML that uses XSL needs t...

I am a KDE based Fluxbox user, I am face an issue that some of my gnome applications that have feature of allowing me to locate and open folder doesn’t really work as expected. Those gnome applicat...

Recently I have tried Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6.4 , I have compare vbox with Vmware server 1.0.4. After couple days of testing, its time for me to share some personal findings towards them. I may not ...

QEMU is a processor emulator, it allows you to run variety of unmodified guest operating systems such as Linux, Windows, Solaris, Dos etc just like Vmware and VirtualBox. In fact VirtualBox dynami...

syslog is a standard for logging service in Linux, it usually run as daemon like syslogd or rsyslogd. Syslog daemon will be forward and store logs in /var/log directory, you may configure it to sto...

top command provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. But if you want ...

In python, we have various type of data structure, such as list, set, tuple, dictionary etc, but in Lua, we only have table. Table in Lua can be used as array, list, dictionary or object.
Let see h...