Life's better off Windows—and Linux is ready to prove it.

Rerunning a previously entered command by typing !! is clearly the easiest way to repeat that command. You don’t have to type anything additional if you want to run the same command again. Here are a ...

Linux offers many classic commands, but some are already outdated, insecure, or are now inefficient. We show you which commands you can leave behind and which you can switch to instead. Linux is ...

Can you do math on the Linux command line? You sure can! In fact, there are quite a few commands that can make the process easy and some you might even find interesting. Let’s look at some very useful ...

This command will create multiple split files, each containing 4 lines . Verbose Mode and Customizing Suffix When using the split command, you can enable the verbose mode to receive a diagnostic ...

One of my favorite utilities on the Linux command-line, and block storage is one of my favorite features on Linode's platform, so in this article I get to combine both of these together - because what ...

The wget command is my go-to for downloading remote files to a local machine when a GUI isn’t available. There are two reasons I tend to default to wget: It’s the first command I learned to use for ...

Performance management on Linux hosts is a task that takes time, knowledge of the command-line interface and a little bit of intuition. As a system administrator, you might rarely venture beyond the ...

While PowerShell is now a cross-platform project that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac systems, the management tool still needs a helping hand to work across these different OSes. Depending on the ...