3.1 Shell & Linux

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• 0049 Pipes and redirection: connecting commands A pipe sends one command's output into another command, and redirection sends output to a file. Together they let small tools build… Beginner · Concept · Linux, macOS Article Basics · Text processing 15 Oct 2026
• 0050 File permissions: chmod, chown and what 755 means Every file has an owner, a group and read/write/execute permissions for three kinds of users. chmod changes the permissions and chown changes… Beginner · Concept · Linux, macOS Article Basics 15 Oct 2026
• 0051 Environment variables and PATH Environment variables are named settings that every program inherits from the shell. PATH is the one that tells the shell where to… Beginner · Concept · Linux, macOS Article Basics 15 Oct 2026
• 0052 Slice and summarize text with grep, sort, uniq, cut, awk and sed A handful of classic tools can filter, count, extract and rewrite text right in the terminal. This guide shows the patterns you… Intermediate · How-to · Linux, macOS Article Finding files & text · Text processing 15 Oct 2026
• 0057 Shell cheat sheet: everyday commands A quick reference for moving around, managing files, viewing and searching text, checking processes and disk space in bash and zsh, with… Beginner · Reference · Linux, macOS Article Basics · Command-line tools 15 Oct 2026
• 0058 Safe bash script template with set ‑euo pipefail and trap A starting point for bash scripts that stops on errors, rejects unset variables, cleans up temp files on exit and parses options.… Intermediate · Reference · Linux, macOS Script Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026
• 0059 Incremental snapshot backups with rsync A bash script that copies a folder into dated snapshots with rsync, hard-links unchanged files to the previous snapshot to save space,… Advanced · How-to · Linux, macOS Script Backups & syncing · Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026
• 0060 Find the biggest files and folders eating your disk A short bash script that lists the largest files over a size limit and the largest subfolders, using find, du, sort and… Beginner · How-to · Linux, macOS Script Finding files & text · Text processing 15 Oct 2026
• 0061 Fix: Address already in use (free a busy port) Your server cannot start because another process already listens on its port. This script shows which process holds the port and stops… Intermediate · Fix · Linux, macOS Script Processes & ports · Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026
• 0108 List all Proxmox VE guests with status and locks (pvesh + jq) A Bash script that lists every VM and container in the cluster with node, status, lock, memory and uptime, using the Proxmox… Intermediate · Reference · Linux Script Shell scripting · VMs & containers 15 Oct 2026
• 0109 A vzdump wrapper script with checks, retention and a log file A Bash wrapper around vzdump that checks the target storage first, backs up chosen guests or all guests with zstd and keep-last… Intermediate · How-to · Linux Script Backup & restore · Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026
• 0265 Turn a one-liner into a robust bash script: strict mode, options, logging, traps, locking and a schedule Grow a find-and-gzip one-liner step by step into a dependable bash script with strict mode, getopts, usage text, logging, error traps, dry-run,… Intermediate · Tutorial · Linux, macOS Article Services & systemd · Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026