Shells like KornShell, Bash, Zsh, and Fish offer command-line editing; Emacs-style editing is recommended. Have ...

Managing files across a remote connection, or sat at your desk, the Linux terminal is the place to be. Learn how one command can be used for two different purposes.

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart ...

Using the find command isn’t the most intuitive means of locating files from the command line, but once you get used to it, you’ll find it incredibly powerful and useful.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

Fortunately, these Linux commands make it fairly easy to download files from a local or remote location. I'm going to show you three: wget, curl, and scp. 1. wget ...

Use the basic tail command to display the last 10 lines of a file. Tail the desired number of lines by specifying the -n option. Learn how to use the +N option to display lines starting from the Nth ...

If you have a command that outputs a lot of data to the terminal, you might want to send that output to a file for easier (or later) viewing or sharing. Jack Wallen shows you how.

This trick is to use the bash while command to create a loop, but preface the command that you want to run with a ! sign so that it loops until the command succceeds. Here’s how it works.