Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over ...

I was going to wait to start this topic until 10.3 was officially released. But now I think we should compile this so that the info is available for everyone, whether they are running prerelease ...

Supercharge your terminal.

Aliases are a great way to make complicated or long Linux commands easier. Here's an example of how you can use aliases to update and upgrade your Linux operating system. That’s not too much to type.

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

The command prompt in a Linux terminal window is often just a $ unless you’ve logged in or sudo’ed your way into the root account, in which case you’d expect a #. Sometimes, though, your prompt will ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...