Most of what we will do in this course can easily be done with a command- line window, sometimes called a shell window. The command-line window lets us type commands to run programs. By default, ...

Modern shells support command-line editing for efficient recall and correction of commands. Command-line editing is more efficient than using the shell's history mechanism. Shells like KornShell, Bash ...

Some Linux commands are no longer in use. These commands may still be available, but it's best to avoid them. Each of these commands has a newer replacement. Over the decades that I've been using ...

Linux tricks can help you get work done faster, especially when they're easy. Here are some ways to find files, reuse prior commands, stop processes and more. In this post, we’ll take a look at a ...

The Linux command line offers some very useful tools to enable you to perform mathematical calculations. This post runs through a series of commands you can use and demonstrates some techniques for ...

Linux has spoiled me over the last 26 years concerning installing applications, as it has had a command-line package installation program (apt-get) since 1999. Apt-get made it incredibly easy to ...

Most of what we will do in this course can easily be done with a command- line window, sometimes called a shell window. The command-line window lets us type commands to run programs. By default, ...