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Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to use them.
In this Linux tip, we will look at how to move around on the Linux command line. There may be some tricks that you don’t know.
If you don't want to stop everything you're doing to wait for some other Linux workload to complete, custom scripts and the bash 'wait' built-in can set you free.
In this video, we're going to take a look at how you can search for commands in your command history -- in reverse order – and then rerun one.
The convert command (part of ImageMagick) can change the resolution of image files faster than you can count to F in hex.
In this video, we're going to take a look at the grep command and some of the things you can do with it.
The grep command offers interesting options to help you find what you want from text files.
In this Linux tip, we’re going to look at the netstat -s command that displays network statistics. The numbers reflect activity since the system’s last boot so some counts will change fairly frequently.
Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux.