Executing PHP/Perl scripts from the command line is a very easy task. Executing scripts from the command line can be very useful when troubleshooting cron jobs. For PHP, just use the php command: root@web [/backup]# php /home/manus/public_html/phpscript.php I am a…
There are man times when you will have to download files from the command line. In most distributions, you have two tools - wget and curl. wget This a very powerful command to simply download a file. Just use wget…
For displaying line numbers in vi/vim we will need to set the number flag. Necessary steps to display the line numbers in vi/vim: 1. Edit your file with vi <filename> 2. Press the : (colon sign). The sign will appear…
To see the connected users on your server, you can use the shell commands: w, who or users. You can use the three commands without any parameters. For more options run the commands with the --help argument. In the examples…
You will probably not change the server hostname very often, but we will show you here how to do it. Usually, on a Linux server you will use the command hostname server.domain.com , like: root@web [~]# hostname web.plothost.com root@web [~]# hostname…
nano is a very used command line editor for Linux. Many Linux distribution has it installed by default. Anyway, if you system doesn't has it, you can easily install it. For more information on nano visit the webpage https://www.nano-editor.org/ You…