LHB Linux Digest #23.04: Firewall Logs, Bash Tips and FREE Docker eBook
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💭 Let's have a look at the interesting things included here:
- Free Docker ebook
- Brace expansion and special variables in Bash
- Beginner's guide to UFW logging
- Memes that only Linux users can understand
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🌱 UFW, Bash Tips and More
Ubuntu and many other distros use the UFW firewall. Here's a quick starter on using the UFW logging so that you can see what's going with your firewall.
Sagar Sharma
I always find it amusing that even seasoned Linux users are unaware of the awesome brace expansion feature. Yes! It's amazing. Trust me.
Abhishek Prakash
Since we are talking bash, how about getting familiar with the special variables?
Sagar Sharma
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🗞️ The happenings
- The simple but useful command line tool Curl turned 25.
- SUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform is shaping up good.
- Open Source Summit Europe is announced. Use code OSSEU23FOSS20 at checkout to get 20% off.
💡 Terminal Tip
Used a certain command earlier but cannot remember its exact name anymore? Without exact name, even History command cannot help you much.
But the apropos could be of help here. It searches for the given term in the man page.
apropos keyword_to_searchMore on this command here:
Abhishek Prakash
🛠️ Nifty tool
Dashy is an open source, highly customizable, easy to use, privacy-respecting dashboard app. Perfect for your homelab.
😂 Geek Humor
AWS has a new meaning now :)
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