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Francesco Galgani
I love the open-source philosophy: share knowledge, share skills, improve yourself.
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Baeldung on Linux
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- Administration (14)
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- Networking (4)
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- Filesystems (2)
- File Viewing (2)
Formatting Text in Linux Terminals
Filed under Scripting
Learn about text formatting in different Linux terminals.
Do File Extensions Have a Meaning in Linux?
Filed under File Viewing
Learn about file extensions and understand how Linux-based systems and programs use mixed techniques to determine file types.
Read a WebSocket Response in Linux Shell
Filed under Networking, Scripting
Explore a few command-line tools for sending and receiving WebSocket messages in a Linux shell.
How To Use QEMU From the Linux Command-Line
Filed under Administration, Installation
Learn how to run a Linux distribution as a QEMU guest system using the command-line inside a Linux host.
IP Address Geolocation Lookups on Linux With GeoLite2
Filed under Administration, Networking, Scripting
Learn how to look up the geolocation of an IP address in the Linux terminal using a Bash script and a local copy of the GeoLite2 databases.
Encrypted Remote Backups via rsync
Filed under Administration, Files, Scripting, Security
Learn how to make an encrypted backup of a local unencrypted directory to a remote server via rsync over ssh.
Encrypting and Decrypting Directories on Linux With gocryptfs
Filed under Administration, Security
Explore gocryptfs, a little-known but actively developed project to perform file-based encryption on Linux.
Linux whois Command With Examples
Filed under Networking
Learn how to use whois, a Linux command-line client to make WHOIS protocol queries.
How to Create a Linux Live USB With Persistence Using Easy2boot
Filed under Administration, Installation
Learn how to use Easy2Boot to make live Linux distributions persistent.
How to View .HEIC Photos on Linux
Filed under File Viewing, Files
Learn how to view HEIC images using multiple approaches in Linux.
Script to Automatically Test if a Website Is Available
Filed under Administration, Scripting, Web
Explore a Bash script for checking if a website is working.
Create a Virtual Machine in VirtualBox From a Physical Installation of Linux
Filed under Administration, Installation
Learn various ways to migrate a physical Linux installation to VirtualBox.
How to Use UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall)
Filed under Administration, Security
Learn how to use the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) program in Linux to manage the back-end firewall with some real-world examples.
How to Ping a Specific Port in Linux
Filed under Networking
Find out the difference between open, closed, and stealth ports in Linux and learn various ways to ping them.
Expand the LVM Space on a Server Accessible Only via SSH
Filed under Administration
Learn two ways to enlarge the space available in LVM in a server accessible only via SSH.
How to Resize and Move Partitions in Linux
Filed under Administration, Filesystems
Learn how to resize disk partitions in Linux using some of the actively maintained open-source partitioning tools currently available.
Wipe Free Space in Linux
Filed under Administration, Files
Explore various solutions to wipe free space and remove confidential data from a disk in Linux.
Bash Bitwise Operators
Filed under Scripting
Learn how Bash represents numbers by bits and how we can use bitwise operators to do basic operations on them.
Execute a Command Whenever File or Directory Changes
Learn how to monitor a directory recursively and execute a command whenever the files and directories within it change.
Checking the Health of a Storage Device in Linux
Filed under Administration
Learn multiple methods and tools to check the health of storage devices in Linux.
Benchmarking Linux Systems
Filed under Administration
Learn about benchmarking the main hardware components of a system under Linux.
Clone File System Hierarchy to Another Disk With Rsync
Filed under Filesystems
Learn how to clone the entire file system hierarchy with all the precautions.
Recovering Websites From the Wayback Machine With Linux
Filed under Web
Learn how to download a static copy of a website archived in the Wayback Machine using wget
Linux Command-Line Tools to Take Website Screenshots
Filed under Scripting
Learn how to use Firefox and Chrome to take screenshots of a website from the command-line.
Baeldung on Computer Science
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Are We Still Traceable When Using VPN?
Filed under Networking, Security
Learn about VPN from a security point of view.
How Are DNS Requests Resolved When Using VPN?
Filed under Networking, Security
Learn how the DNS is actually used during a VPN connection.