That’s why I looked into something simple and came across a command-line task manager. It strips productivity down to the essentials—using the command-line to get things done through text-based ...

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple programs. It’s the UNIX way. A pipe connects one program’s output stream to ...

The Rust reimplementation of classic Unix tools is making progress: version 0.5.0 now passes 87.75 percent of the GNU test suite.

The Terminal app in macOS keeps track of recent commands you've used so you can reuse them at a later time. Here's how to clear Terminal's command history. When you type commands and press return in ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

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 ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...