Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I depend on every day. See what you think.

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Use these Linux commands to quickly search and find anything from the Linux terminal, without digging through folders in a GUI file manager.