Question: What is the reason my cron job does not gets executed when i use percentage ‘%’ in my cron job. How to solve this issue ?
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As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux text editor.
 
Based on this data, the top spot in the best Linux text editor goes to…
 
Vi / Vim Editor
 
Vim won by a huge margin and I don’t think this is surprise to anybody. If you are new to any of the Linux text editors listed in the top 5, read the rest of the article to understand little bit more about those editors.
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A while back we reviewed 15 practical find command examples (Part I). Find command can do lot more than just searching for files based on name.
 
In this article (Part 2), let us discuss 15 advanced examples of find command including — finding files based on the time it is accessed, modified or changed, finding files comparatively, performing operation on found files etc.,
 
Ramesh Natarajan: That is my sweet little daughter in that picture. She was very happy to spot the sea lion in the California Long Beach Aquarium.
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Question: How can I delete empty directory, directory with files and sub directories in Linux / Unix ? Also, how can I use an alias effectively for rm and rmdir command?
 
Answer: You can delete empty directory using rmdir command, or directory with content using rm command. Deletion can be done interactively, recursively, forcefully, or through alias. In this article, let us review 5 practical examples that shows how to delete the directories in Linux like systems.
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Question: How do I find out the major and minor number of my block device / partition / mount points / SAN disk / filesystem?

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Creating users in Linux or Unix system is a routine task for system administrators.

Sometimes you may create a single user with default configuration, or create a single user with custom configuration, or create several users at same time using some bulk user creation method.

In this article, let us review how to create Linux users in 4 different methods using useradd, adduser and newusers command with practical examples.

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ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, which has defined the format for a disk image. In simple terms iso file is a disk image.
 
ISO files are typically used to distribute the operating system. Most of the linux operating system that you download will be on ISO format.
 
If you have downloaded an Linux ISO file you typically burn it onto a CD or DVD as ISO image. Once you’ve burned the ISO image in a CD or DVD, you can boot the system to install the Linux OS.
 
But sometimes, you may just want to mount the ISO file and view the content without burning it to CD or DVD. In this article let us review how to Mount & View iso file as root and regular user in Linux Operating system.
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