Sometimes, a GUI app isn't enough.

Many hands make light work.

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

Our Linux cheat sheet includes some of the most commonly used commands along with brief explanations and examples of what the commands can do. One of the things you need when building your “chops” on ...

It’s a testament to how far Linux has come that users today don’t typically have to use the command line if they don’t want to. Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern ...

The .history file in Linux – whether ~/.bash_history, ~/.zsh_history or ~/.history – provides ways to track and reuse commands that you have recently run. This post suggests how you might make good ...

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 ...

Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to that ...

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 ...