How To: Update gcutil / gcloud Components On a Linux / Unix / OS X

H ow can I update for Google Cloud SDK components on a Linux or OS X unix based systems?   The easiest and recommended way is to use gcloud command to update various Google cloud…

Mac OS X: Force Quit An Unresponsive Full Screen Application Shortcut Key

S ometime my VLC application gets crashed on a Mac OS X system. The screen goes blank and VLC stays hang running on my desktop or MacBook. How can I solve this issue and quit…

OS X Terminal: -bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (UTF-8): No such file or directory Fix

I am a new Apple OS X Mabbook user. I am getting an error which read as follows when I connect to any remote Linux/Unix/BSD server or machine through OS X ssh Terminal app: ssh…

OS X: Create and use Live USB Fedora Linux Media

M y new Dell Laptop has no DVD or CD drive. I’m trying to create a bootable Fedora Linux 20 USB using UNetbootin utility as described here. But, UNetbootin failed to create bootable USB image…

HowTo: Use ps, kill, nice, and killall To Manage processes in FreeBSD and OS X Unix Operating System

I ‘m a new Unix system user. How can I manage process on a FreeBSD operating systems?   A process is nothing but an executing program on FreeBSD or Unix-like system. Each process on the…

How To Extract a Tar Files To a Different Directory on a Linux/Unix-like Systems

I want to extract tar file to specific directory called /tmp/data. How can I extract a tar archive to a different directory using tar command on a Linux or Unix-like systems?   You do not…

Unix / Linux: Initialize Dot Files Without Restarting The Current Shell Session

I ‘m a new Linux, OS X or Unix-like system users. I’m using bash shell. I made changes to my $HOME/.profile ($HOME/.bash_profile) file. How can I restart my session without doing logout and login again?…

How to Run and Execute Command When I Log Out Of Linux Session?

I ‘m using CentOS 7 server. I need to run a command when I logout using ssh or bash shell. So in Linux and Unix-like systems, how can I run a command to execute when…

Apple OS X: Install X Window System XQuartz For SSH X11 Forwarding On a Mavericks or Yosemite

I need to tunnel X Window securely over SSH bases session so that I run X program on my remote Linux/Unix server/workstation and get back display to my Apple Macbook pro laptop. I tried the…

How To Find the WiFi Password on Mac OS X

I ‘ve MBP 13″ laptop. How can I find out the Wifi password on Mac OS X using command line and GUI options?   OS X stores your WiFI details including password in Keychain password…