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 ...

When you type commands in the terminal, that’s **standard input**. When you run the command, the results typically go to **standard output**. This input/output model allows you to chain commands ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When you run your own executable command or shell script on Linux, you must prepend ./ to the ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

ITworld.com – One of my newer users asked me just yesterday how he might record a login session in order to review the commands he entered and the output he generated at a later time. I pointed out ...

User profiles aren’t restricted to what shells your users use, what groups they are members of, and what privileges they have been allocated. While these factors are important, so are when they log in ...