You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

The Linux fold command can break long lines of text into pieces, but it can also be used to create arguments for looping in scripts. The Linux fold command enables you to break a string of characters ...

Linux's oldest commands still work, but these three modern alternatives make finding files, searching, and navigating much easier.

Linux commands often have long lists of options they support, many of which are single-letter mnemonics. These can be tricky ...

Linux might sound scary for first-time Linux users, but actually, it isn’t. Linux is a bunch of open-source Unix operating systems based on Linux Kernel. These operating systems are called Linux ...

I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to ...

Over the weekend, experimenters discovered that OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, can hallucinate simulations of Linux shells and role-play dialing into a bulletin board system (BBS). The chatbot, based ...

Get ready to transform your terminal experience.

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 ...

Why keep a first aid kit or fire extinguisher in your home? Same with these commands: You'll never know when they might come in very handy. I use the Linux command line daily, but that’s because I ...