Tips & Tricks

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How to Backup (Dump) and Restore MySQL Database

This article shows the proper way to dump and restore the MySQL database using mysqldump and mysql commands.

Dmidecode is a Linux command-line tool used to retrieve information about your system's hardware components in a human-readable format.

This guide shows the typical usages of head and tail command in Linux to get a portion of the text through examples.

This article will show how regular and named pipes work in Linux, how to use them, and how they differ from each other.

Learn how to use the nslookup command in Linux to query DNS servers and get information for a domain name or IP address.

Telnet is one of the simplest ways to check port connectivity. Learn how to telnet to a port to check whether a port is open or not.

The ethtool command is used to view and change the ethernet device parameters such as speed and duplex. Here's how to use it!

Learn how to limit Alt+Tab in GNOME to the current monitor only and improve your multitasking experience with our simple guide.

Here is how to force GNOME Shell to switch between active apps only on the current workspace when pressing the Alt+Tab shortcut.

Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 now allows a physical disk with a Linux filesystem, such as ext4, to be attached and mounted inside WSL 2.