nnn: A Linux Terminal File Manager To Reduce Your Terminal Navigational Stress

Throw your desktop environment and start using the terminal app for your daily routine. Sounds easy! Those who did this can easily relate to the pain of navigating to the different directories using the cd command.
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Atuin: A Powerful Alternative for Shell History (SQLite Database) in Linux

Atuin is a powerful replacement for your existing conventional history command with an SQLite database, which will record extra context for your executed commands like log exit code, CWD, hostname, session, command duration, etc.

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Arch2appimage: Convert Arch Package into Appimage using Python Script on Linux

Arch2appimage (inspired by Arch-Deployer) is a free and open-source script or tool written in Python with the goal of converting Arch Linux packages either from the official Arch Linux Repositories or from the AUR into Appimage.
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G4Music – lightweight music player

If you use a general purpose media player to access your music collection, you’re missing out on a wealth of features that can improve your listening experience. That’s why we recommend a dedicated music player. Linux offers a huge range to choose from which is why we put together this roundup to help save you time. But there are always new projects coming along. Read more

How To Automatically Update Running Docker Containers Using Watchtower

Keeping the Docker containers up-to-date is one of the important job of a DevOps engineer. Manually updating Docker containers is a quite time consuming task. This guide explains what is Watchtower, how to install Watchtower, and how to automatically update running Docker containers using Watchtower in Linux. Read more

How I use Bash to automate tasks on Linux

The Bash command line is a great way to automate tasks. Whether you are running Linux on a server and need to manipulate log files or other data, or you're a desktop user who just wants to keep files tidy, you can use a few automation features in Bash to make your work easier. Read more

5 Useful Linux Command Line Tools that Everyone Should Use

A set of five useful Linux command(s) to gives you the ultimate productivity boost in your day-to-day Linux work Read more

How to Create a Data Backup and Recovery Strategy for Linux

As the saying goes "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail," you should always be prepared with a data backup to avoid losing valuable data on your Linux PC or server.

A backup strategy is a simple plan that prepares you to quickly and easily recover your important data in the shortest amount of time possible. Let's look at how you can devise a backup and recovery plan for Linux that best suits your needs. Read more

How To Run A Command For A Specific Time In Linux

I was just wondering if there are any easy ways to run a command for a specific time and kill it automatically once the time is out in Linux and Unix-like operating systems - hence this post. Read on

shred command: makes files unrecoverable in Linux

Are you still removing your files containing sensitive information (ssh keys, account password, auth file, etc) using the standard way?
Then you are making it easier for third-party applications to recover. Let’s dig in more; every time you delete files the standard way, they just get unlinked from the filesystem, making the block free for overwriting. Read more

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