Find out useful system information with the command line Find out what day Easter is? Use this useful command. ubuntu ~ $ ncal -e March 27 2016ubuntu ~ $ ncal -e March 27 2016 Display the date of Easter for Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. ubuntu ~ $ ncal -o May 1 2016ubuntu ~ $ … Read more
Very useful Linux commands Another way to get the uptime of the system. awk ‘{printf("Uptime: %d:%02d days, %02d minutes, %02d seconds.\n",($1/60/60/24),($1/60/60%24),($1/60%60),($1%60))}’ /proc/uptimeawk ‘{printf("Uptime: %d:%02d days, %02d minutes, %02d seconds.\n",($1/60/60/24),($1/60/60%24),($1/60%60),($1%60))}’ /proc/uptime Find the actual device name of the drive that contains your root partition. ip-172-31-20-16:~> findmnt -n -o SOURCE / /dev/xvda1ip-172-31-20-16:~> findmnt -n -o SOURCE / … Read more