Well, that moment happened a few weeks ago to me. My boss came up to me and asked me for a beginner's guide to Linux for a new tech that had just started. After nearly 14 years in IT and Linux ...

AWK is a pattern-scanning and processing language that searches one or more files for records (usually lines) that match specified patterns. It processes lines by performing actions, such as writing ...

An old book about an even older operating system.

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 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 ...

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, ...