Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I rely on every day, and you can benefit from them, too.

Linux powers players like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, as well as 80% of the world’s smartphones in the form of Android. But the real power of Linux lies at the command line—a DOS-like prompt with a ...

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 ...

Early versions of Windows were little more than graphical interfaces layered on top of the MS-DOS operating system—and DOS itself was a system based on the command-line interface, not today's ...

The find command is one of the strangest Linux programs you’ll use. It’s essential enough to be omnipresent, yet obscure ...

Working on the command line is an integral part of being a successful Linux user. You need to have a firm grasp of certain commands to work effectively. There are even certain commands that you must ...

Can you do math on the Linux command line? You sure can! In fact, there are quite a few commands that can make the process easy and some you might even find interesting. Let’s look at some very useful ...

I've been using Linux for a very long time, and from day 1, the terminal window and command-line interface (CLI) have been an integral part of my work. At the same time, I've learned that it's OK to ...

Lots of Linux programs also depend on a Unix file structure, where everything is a file or directory and simply mounted to the directory tree in one of the standardized Unix directories (dev, etc, ...