Files, permissions, processes, networking, packages and disks: the Linux commands you actually use, with syntax and examples, and the ip and ss tools that replaced ifconfig and netstat.

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 ...

Linux commands often have long lists of options they support, many of which are single-letter mnemonics. These can be tricky ...

If you use the Linux command line often, you might forget which commands you've used recently. The history command is there to give your mind a jog. History does repeat itself — at least with regards ...

Get ready to transform your terminal experience.

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 ...

It's easy, and they might change you.

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 ...

One of the most valuable utilities offered by Unix and Linux-based systems is the wc command. This versatile command stands for "word count" and offers you a simple, yet powerful way to analyze text ...