This is how some of the popular Linux distro websites looked like when they launched initially. Thanks to the archive.org for all the screenshots. Redhat website looked pretty decent for a 1996 website. Which one of these websites did you like?
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Unix file and directory permission is in the form of a 3×3 structure. i.e Three permissions (read, write and execute) available for three types of users (owner, groups and others).
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Here is a list of few Easter eggs on Linux/UNIX and related software.

How did your Easter egg hunt go? Did you find anything? Share it with us.
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Here is a list of few April Fool’s Day prank ideas to fool your friends. Some of them are very old and yet effective.

What is your favorite April Fool’s Day prank?

1. Take a screen-shot of the desktop and set it as their desktop background image. Disable the top/bottom panels on their desktop to make this static desktop image looks like a real desktop.

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Netstat command displays various network related information such as network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, multicast memberships etc.,

In this article, let us review 10 practical unix netstat command examples.
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In our bash introduction article, we learned that a shell-script file contains list of commands to be executed by the shell interpreter. In this article let us review about shell commands and its internals.

A command is a sequence of words. The first word indicates the command to be executed and remaining words are passed as an arguments, where arguments could be the options or parameters to the command.
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Question: How do I executed PostgreSQL Commands inside a Linux / UNIX shell script?

Answer: With the help of the psql interactive terminal, you can execute the psql commands from the shell script. For this purpose, you should enable the password less login by pg_hba.conf, or .pgpass.
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