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Awesome but often unknown Linux commands and tools

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 17, 2011

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“3. mytop – Similar to top, but designed specifically for
MySQL. Gives you an interactive display of what is happening with
your MySQL database, in real time. Information such as what queries
are being run, amount of data which is being flowing in and out of
the database, number of queries being run per second and number of
slow queries. This application is once again packaged with most
large common Linux distributions.

“4. lsof – This cool little command comes with most Linux
Distros as default and allows you to display any files which are
currently opened on the system. Especially handy for finding files
which have been deleted (and not appearing in the file system) but
still resident due to being held open by a current running
process.”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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