I was working on an article a couple days ago with a friend and he had sent over some commands for me to reference in the article which included the “sort -R” command. The sort -R switch will randomly sort the contents of a file which is very useful in certain situations. The problem is…
Yesterday I needed to upgrade a single application on CentOS Linux. First I figured out that the application was part of the coreutils RPM package which is currently only available up to version coreutils 5.97-23 on CentOS. The current coreutils package is already up to coreutils 8.5 and upgrading coreutils is near impossible on CentOS…
Earlier today I was upgrading some packages on a CentOS Linux server and was curious what applications were actually installed with the coreutils RPM package. I knew that this was one of the main RPM packages that had a ton of various applications installed with it however I was not sure specifically which ones. Below…
Earlier today I ran into an issue where I needed an updated version of “sort” on a server running CentOS 5.4. Since sort is not a package available via yum I needed to first find out what Linux RPM package includes sort to see if there was an upgrade available. To find this out you…
I recently noticed a difference of the output from the “ls” command between servers so I wanted to update the package on each server to make sure I was comparing apples to apples. I knew that “ls” was part of a grouping of utilities but wasn’t sure which package. You can use the info command…