Remember that one command that solved your problem? Was it cat, less, more, wc or something else? When we’re at the terminal, we can issue dozens of commands to solve a problem and in the background our Linux OS is recording these commands to a history file. In this how-to we’ll look at various ways…
You’re looking for that one file, the one that contains the all important information for your next meeting. Do you manually search all of your files? That will take time. Instead we use a little Linux command line magic. Grep is a pattern matching command that we can use to search inside files and directories…
Learning more about the components inside your computer is often the first step towards diagnosing problems, improving performance, or getting ready to upgrade. You can download and install software that displays information about your PC, such as Speccy and CPU-Z. Or you just can use a few simple commands in the Windows Command Prompt. So,…
The word “alias” conjures up images of espionage, secret identities and mystery. In reality an alias is really just “another name for.” In Linux, an alias is used to create a command / shortcut that in reality can be a long and unwieldy command with difficult switches (options) that are difficult to remember. In this…