If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

For decades, Coreutils have been part of the standard repertoire for Linux administrators and developers. Those who wanted to use these tools on Windows with largely identical behavior previously ...

I spend more time today than ever before interacting with terminal windows, which is something I don’t think Past Me would have believed in the early ’90s. Back then, poor MS-DOS was the staid ...

Bash is the default shell in Ubuntu, and honestly? There’s nothing wrong with it. But if you spend a lot of time in the terminal, it can be worth trying out alternative shells as they often provide ...

Getting an initial shell — through exploitation, a reverse connection, or a web interface — often feels like a win. In practice, many of these shells are fragile: no tab completion, broken control ...

A PowerShell “for” loop is a core scripting tool that lets you execute a block of code multiple times. Whether you’re automating system tasks or processing data, understanding how to write a “for” ...

This is a tool for using Bluesky (bsky.social/bsky.app) from the command line in a Unix-like environment shell. The goal of this tool is to make it executable within a shell script environment that is ...

In 2024, ESET researchers noticed previously undocumented malware in the network of a Southeast Asian governmental entity. This led us to uncover even more new malware on the same system, none of ...