The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

Working on the command line is an integral part of being a successful Linux user. You need to have a firm grasp of certain commands to work effectively. There are even certain commands that you must ...

Life's better off Windows—and Linux is ready to prove it.

This select set of Linux commands can help you master the command line and speed up your use of the operating system. When coming up to speed as a Linux user, it helps to have a cheat sheet that can ...

If you use the Linux command line often, you might forget which commands you've used recently. The history command is there to give your mind a jog. History does repeat itself — at least with regards ...

I’m a big fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. One of the quotes from it that stands out in my head is, “Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.” For ...

Turns out ls is more memorable when there’s loot involved.

There’s a command line tool for running multiple commands on multiple Linux servers at once. Jack Wallen shows you how with Parallel-SSH. If you’re an administrator of multiple Linux machines in your ...

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...

Everyone knows that Linux makes a great Web server. Some network administrators even use it in conjunction with Samba to create file servers that Windows workstations can access as easily as Windows ...