I've been using the Linux shell for about 20 years. Although I found it powerful from the beginning, there are some things I wish I'd known when I first used it. The first thing that most people new ...

A Linux terminal has a lot more features than the TeleType of yore. On a TeleType, text spews out and scrolls up and is gone forever. A real terminal can use escape characters to do navigate around ...

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I teach new Linux users these four short, easy to remember commands early on. Learn what they are and how to use them.

Here's an introduction to running a Linux terminal inside a browser and some of the tools available to you. If you want to try using a Linux terminal and aren’t sitting anywhere near a Linux system, ...

Copying and renaming files on Linux is a task that can be done from within a GUI, but sometimes you just want the speed and simplicity of doing it from the terminal window. Here's how. When you first ...

I’m a big fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. One of the quotes from it that stands out in my head is, “Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.” For ...