Your data center might depend upon Linux, so why not get the most out of the command line with GNU Parallel? When you run commands on Linux, be they one at a time at the prompt or from a bash script, ...

Controlling services in Linux doesn’t have to be a confounding experience. Here’s how the process works and why it is often seen as an overly complicated task. For advanced Linux users, starting, ...

Commands that provide help are essential. Here's a look at some of the help you can get from the Linux system itself. Even after you’ve used Linux for a while, you will still find yourself needing ...

These 50-year-old commands have earned their retirement. Let’s bring in the new kids.

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

I’m a big fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. One of the quotes from it that stands out in my head is, “Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire.” For ...

Linux is constantly evolving, and with it the tools that its fans use on a daily basis. However, some of the classics such as iptables , which has been replaced by nftables , are now not only outdated ...

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 ...

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