I was surprised by which Linux commands I stopped using.

Older commands can still be faster—and more flexible, powerful, and accessible too!

So, clearly, rm -rf can be dangerous, but it's not some forbidden command you should never touch. In fact, it's a standard way to delete a directory and everything inside it. Say you have an old ...

I’ve been using Linux for a very long time, and from day 1, the terminal window and command-line interface (CLI) have been an integral part of my work. At the same time, I’ve learned that it’s OK to ...

Linux has many tricks up its sleeve, which helps make it one of the most powerful and flexible operating systems on the planet. Take, for instance, the ability to schedule commands. Say you need to ...

There are a lot of ways on Linux to make repeating commands easier than retyping them, and here's a nice collection of them. Life on the command line on Linux is clearly something most of us enjoy, ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

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 ...

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 ...