Category: College Passout Series
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Customize Your Shell Environment: bashrc, Aliases, and PATH (Linux for Beginners, Part 23)
Your alias works in the terminal but not in cron because the shell reads different startup files depending on how it launched. Login vs non-login, .bashrc, aliases, PATH, and the prompt.
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Grow Storage With LVM Logical Volumes (Linux for Beginners, Part 22)
Fixed partitions are rigid; LVM puts a flexible layer between disks and filesystems so you can grow a full volume onto a new disk with no downtime. PVs, VGs, LVs, and snapshots.
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Backups With rsync and tar, Done Right (Linux for Beginners, Part 21)
Making copies is easy; making copies you can restore from is the skill. rsync and tar, the trailing-slash trap, space-smart snapshots, and why an untested backup is not a backup.
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Text Processing in Linux With grep, sed, and awk (Linux for Beginners, Part 20)
Turning a mountain of text into one clear answer is the work an admin does most. grep finds lines, sed changes them, awk works in columns, and a few helpers finish the job.
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Landing Your First Linux Job: Certs, Interviews, and Your First Role (Linux for Beginners, Part 24)
Nobody is hired for reciting commands. Which Linux certifications are worth it, what interviews actually test, how to survive your first 90 days, and a seven-day plan to start now.
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Build a Linux Home Lab to Practice Safely (Linux for Beginners, Part 19)
You learn Linux by breaking it and fixing it, which needs a safe place to be reckless. Build a home lab on the laptop you own, use snapshots to undo anything, and practice the whole series.
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Troubleshoot Linux the Methodical Way, Not by Guessing (Linux for Beginners, Part 18)
The admins who fix things fast follow a method, not a hunch. Define the problem, check the cheap causes first, read the signal not just the number, and change one thing at a time.
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Basic Security Hardening for a New Linux Server (Linux for Beginners, Part 17)
A fresh server gets brute-forced within minutes. The five changes that stop almost all automated attacks: patch, key-only SSH, a default-deny firewall, fail2ban, and least privilege.
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Bash Scripting From Scratch for Beginners (Linux for Beginners, Part 16)
Turn the commands you repeat every day into a script that runs itself. Shebangs, variables, arguments, loops, and the one line that stops a script from doing real damage.
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Schedule Tasks in Linux With cron and systemd Timers (Linux for Beginners, Part 15)
cron runs the jobs that keep Linux servers going. Learn crontab syntax, the PATH trap that kills jobs silently, and when a systemd timer does it better.
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How to Use vi and vim to Edit Files in Linux (Linux for Beginners, Part 14)
Open, edit, save, and quit files in Linux with vi and vim: the three modes, the vim-tiny arrow key trap, and how to save a file you do not own.
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How Do You Connect to a Remote Linux Server With SSH? (Linux for Beginners, Part 13)
SSH is how you reach every Linux server you will ever manage. Generate a key, copy it to the server, turn off passwords, and fix the errors that bite.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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