Get started with Bash, Unix pipes, directory navigation, sudo, Nano, and other command-line essentials ...

One of the best ways to write scripts quickly and effectively is to never start from scratch.

Autocomplete—found everywhere from text messaging apps to IDEs—can seem like a fairly modern innovation, but it’s been present in various forms of Unix since the early 80s, if not earlier. Linux ...

Bash scripting commands are as varied as the command set that Unix's terminal has. Bash commands can also use parameters, expanding their usability and making them a powerful way of controlling Linux.

PIPE identifies the device-type as a UNIX pipe. ' UNIX-command ' is the name of a UNIX command, executable program, or shell script to which you want to route output or from which you want to read ...

The most arcane shell commands and options are explained with plenty of examples. “Here” documents, a way to feed input to a script or command within the script itself, are explained thoroughly.

Unix commands can help you get a feel for how your users are working and what's usual or unusual about their command line activities ...

The Unix script command is a very basic tool for recording a login session or a portion of a login session. Begun with the command “script”, the command optionally includes another two arguments.

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...