Essential Linux troubleshooting commands every user should know.

Learn some of the most important Linux commands.

Ubuntu is one of the most customizable operating systems available. In order to begin to understand the various complexities of the system, you need to become familiar with the most basic commands at ...

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, ...

Most Linux distributions are considerably more secure than Windows out of the box. There are many reasons for that, including the inherent user and file permissions structure, the addition of ...

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 ...

Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too. Want to get work done a little faster, spend less time remembering commands and maybe even ...

Linux is a powerful operating system that also happens to be the most secure platform on the market. With plenty of security features and sub-systems, anyone using the open-source OS can add even more ...

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 ...