Kishor Gavali....................DevOps

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dir/w ========== ls -l aka ll dir/p =========== ls -l|more ls -l|less dir/s ========= ls -R recursive cls ========= clear type ========= cat cd ========= pwd md ========= mkdir rd ========= rmdir If empty del ========= rm, -f move/ren ======= mv copy ========= cp xcopy ========= cp -a deltree ========= rm -fr

Surely I have gone mad ! You might think, what has Linux to do with horses ? Well Linux might not yet be running a robotic horse, though that too is not far, but Linux surely has got a lot to do with mounting. You see, mounting is the Linux phrase for getting the operating system to access your disks. This disk can be a floppy, a cdrom or a hard disk partition. To mount a disk , there are two necessary conditions The disk ( device ) must be one of the files in the /dev directory. The disk must be listed in the /etc/fstab ( or /etc/mtab sometimes ) file along with some extra information. By default when you install Linux, it is automatically configured to be able to access your floppy disks, cdrom and atleast one hard disk. Also every time you boot into linux, your swap and your root directory , the \'/\' directory are mounted. However there are times when you have stored some songs on your windows partition and you want to listen to them while running Linux, or maybe...

For many years now, a debate is raging in the annals of umpteen newsgroups and mailing lists. Should we call the Linux system as Linux or GNU/Linux? Here is my proposition in this matter. What is GNU? GNU ('GNU's not UNIX') is a project founded by Richard M. Stallman in 1984. The aim of the GNU project is to create a UNIX-like system without proprietary software. This project has contributed hundreds of useful software which can be freely distributed. Among the most important GNU software are the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) and its C library (glibc), the Bourne Again Shell (bash), the GNU tar, the PostScript interpreter Ghostscript, and the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) -- a graphical environment. What is Linux? Linux is the name Linus Torvalds gave to the kernel of an operating system he wrote when he was a student at University of Helsinki, Finland. The kernel of any OS is the core of the system which manages processes, memory, disks and I/O (input/output...