If you haven’t yet discovered the versatile curl, you might just be surprised by how clever a tool it is. curl, or cURL, is a lot more than a drop-in replacement for wget. Although either tool can be ...

Incessant status updates to your cell phone from the command line? Sure, with a little help from curl and Twitter. If you've been around the Linux and UNIX world as long as I have (is it really going ...

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

To get started as a Linux (or Unix) user, you need to have a good perspective on how Linux works and a handle on some of the most basic commands. This first post in a “getting started” series examines ...

Homebrew is a macOS package manager that lets users install and manage UNIX tools and 3rd party software. Here's how to get started. Unlike most UNIX/Linux-based systems, macOS doesn't provide a ...