Linux - Boot Loader

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

boot loader – software which is stored on the master boot record of a bootable storage disk. It is capable of loading one or more operating systems by reading file system-based information.

Linux - Boot

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

boot – process of loading a computer's operating system. If the system is working properly, the operating system boots when turned on.

Linux - Bmconf

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bmconf – installer and configurator for the smart boot manager (SMB), which is a program that runs at boot up, and gives one the ability to select which operating system to run.

Linux - Biff

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

biff – program which notifies when new mail arrives and displays who it is from.

y option that allows mail notification.

n option that disables mail notification.

Examples: biff y

biff n

Linux - Bind

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bind – set, display and assign functions and macros to a key or a sequence of keys and function bindings.

This is utilized so that it is known what functions occur when certain keys are pressed.

-l parameter to list names of functions.

-P parameter to list function names and bindings.

Example: bind -l

Linux - BG

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bg – sends foreground jobs to background.

% refers to previous job.

%n refers to job by a number

%str refers to a job that was begins with the command starting with str.

-help parameter for help.

Example: bg %1

Linux - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND)

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) – a domain name service implementation developed by the University of California at Berkeley. BIND listens for requests and queries root name servers to translate Internet protocol (IP) addresses to corresponding domain names and vice versa.

Linux - Bdiff

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bdiff – calculates and reports the differences between two files.

-s parameter for the output to be silent

Examples: bdiff testfile.txt testfile2.txt

bdiff testfile.txt testfile2.txt -s

Linux - BC

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bc – basic calculator for arbitrary precision mathematics.

-h parameter of help.

-i parameter for interactive mode.

Example: echo “20+10” | bc

Linux - Batch

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

batch – reads commands from standard input or a specified file and then executes them when the system load levels permit.

Example: batch testfile.txt

Note: the testfile.txt would have in it the commands to run. Also note that batch doesn’t have any parameters that can be utilized with its usage.

Linux - Bash

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

bash – GNU’s Not Unix! (GNU) Bourne shell which has built in file management commands and support for completion of commands and paths using the tab key on the keyboard.

Linux - BaseOS

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

baseos – foundation for an installation which provides the core set of the underlying operating system functionality.

Linux - Base64

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

base64 – base64 utilized to encode/decode data and print it  to standard output.

-d parameter is used to decode data.

-i parameter is used when decoding to ignore non-alphabet characters.

-w used to wrap encoded lines Utilize 0 to disable line wrapping (example: -w0).

Example: base64 testfile.txt > testencode.txt

Linux - Base32

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

base32 – base32 utilized to encode/decode data and then print it to standard output.

-d parameter is used to decode data

-i parameter is used when decoding to ignore non-alphabet characters

-w used to wrap encoded lines Utilize 0 to disable line wrapping (example: -w0)

Example: base32 testfile.txt > testencode.txt

Linux - Basename

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

basename – strip directory and suffix from filenames.

Example: basename /usr/local/bin/

Linux - Awk

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

awk – used for pattern matching, text processing and reporting.

The name Awk is derived from the last name initials of its designers: Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger, and Brian W. Kernighan. The first version of Awk was written in 1977.

The syntax of awk is as such:

awk options 'selection_criteria { action }' input-file > output-file

Example: Using awk to show how to extract column 5 (the file size) from the output of ls -l.

ls –l | awk ‘{print $5}’

Note: notice that the output of the awk ‘{print $5}’ is the fifth column of the ls -l command

as shown for reference.

print is the command to print out output.

print $5 means print the fifth column.

Linux - Aspell

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

aspell  – spell checker which checks for misspellings and allows for changes to be made.

check – argument to spell check a single file.

Example: aspell check my_file.txt

Linux - Ar

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

ar – utilized to create, modify, and extract files from an archive.

-r parameter for creating an archive file.

Example: ar r archive_file_name.a *.txt

Linux - Aptitude

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

aptitude – utilized to view, upgrade, search and install software packages.

Linux Apt-Get

The following is a Linux dictionary word of the day:

apt-get – ability to search for and install software packages.

Example: apt-get download linux