How to setup a Dedicated Ark Server with the Structures Plus mod on Linux Ubuntu 18.04, and how to adjust most of the available settings. Ark servers are not horribly demanding of the CPU, but do require a good amount of ram. Also the more players on your server the more resources you will need. ...more

Linux has a lot of ways to find files and specific text within files, the most common tools for this are Find and Grep. ...more

Aliases can be used to speed up your command line usage. They can be used to issue multiple commands with a single alias command.

The alias "update" is used to issue 3 commands apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and apt-get autoremove.

The alias "h()" is a function alias, this allows you to quickly search your history for keywords. such as "h nano" or "h grep" to get a list of lines from your bash history that match those keywords. We also ignore duplicates and lines beginning with a space and increase the history size. ...more