The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

One thing that's always bothered me about Linux, and UNIX before it, is that there isn't a decent command-line calculator available. You know, something where you can type in solve 5+8 or, better, ...

If you've worked in the terminal, it's likely you're in some way proficient with the command history features of your shell. There's a lot more functionality than many realise however, and learning it ...

I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to ...

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious. Exit codes on the Linux command line are numeric values that provide feedback ...