Telnet, ifconfig, and netstat, and more, all have better replacements.

Baffled by the command line? Take it easy with these tips to smooth your journey.

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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of ways on Linux to make repeating commands easier than retyping them, and here's a nice collection of them. Life on the command line on Linux is clearly something most of us enjoy, ...

When I need to work with Linux user accounts, I tend to default to the command line. Sure, there are GUIs for this purpose, but I find the command line to be more efficient and effective at this task.

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 ...

The commands below include basic Unix commands such as ls, cat, cp, mv, grep, etc. We will also talk about some of the shortcuts that can help you take control of your operating system faster and in a ...

Your data center might depend upon Linux, so why not get the most out of the command line with GNU Parallel? When you run commands on Linux, be they one at a time at the prompt or from a bash script, ...