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 ...

Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems.

The result is a wealth of knowledge that appears on your screen to assist with seeing what the command has for parameters. You can also check out the description as well as related links to this ...

If you have used PowerShell for a while now, you probably know that there are a few ways to give PowerShell more of a multithreaded feel by using PowerShell jobs in the form of the *-job cmdlets as ...

Windows PowerShell has a built-in History feature that remembers all the commands you executed when using it. While it should remember the History of the active session, I see that it retains more ...

For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...