Tips & Tricks

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SSH to Port Other Than 22: How to Do It (with Examples)

This guide will explore how to change the SSH server port, and we will show you how to connect to a port other than the default 22.

This article will explain how to use the unzip command in Linux to list, test, and extract compressed ZIP archives.

There are plenty of commands to check information about the hardware of a Linux system. Meet one of them.

This article will show you how to configure a static IP address from the command line on Linux and how to modify the routing table.

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.