Don Watkins
One of the first commands I learned in Linux was ls. Knowing what’s in a directory where...
Command Line
Alan Formy-Duval
In a recent article, I introduced the chown command, which is used for modifying ownership of files...
Image by: Opensource.com CC-by-SA 4.0 Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone,...
2 Every object on your Linux system has a permission mode that describes what actions a user...
How my easy, home-made backup program saves time, space on the storage medium, and network bandwidth
How my easy, home-made backup program saves time, space on the storage medium, and network bandwidth
David Both
Nothing can ever go wrong with my computer and I will never lose my data. Riiiiight.
This article...
Adding a user is one of the most fundamental exercises on any computer system; this article focuses...
Jim Hall
Use these commands to generate random numbers for a fun math quiz game.
have always been interested in historical dates and determining the actual day of the week an...
Using metacharacters on the Linux command line is a great way to enhance productivity.
Early in my Linux...
Here’s how to use awk to strip out sample code from a Markdown file.
Regular expressions match patterns and help you solve problems.
You can use regular expressions to match letters and patterns, to help you play a letter game.
This series delves into the practical applications of regular expressions within Linux tools such as grep, sed,...
In Regular Expressions #1: Introduction, I covered what they are and why they’re useful. In Regular...
In the previous article, Regular Expressions #1: Introduction, I covered what they are and why they’re useful....
Regular expressions don't have to invoke anxiety and fear, although they do for many of us. The...