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

Yet, not only can Linux be fully graphically-driven – like Windows – the command line does give great power. It’s ironic that after years spent decrying Linux on this point, Microsoft have in recent ...

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 ...

Lazygit is a tool designed to ease your day-to-day git use. The git command-line program is definitely worth learning, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...