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, ...

Until recently, getting a proper Unix shell within Windows meant that I had to reach for a workaround. Windows doesn't come with the best commands I'm used to finding on Linux, such as grep, find, ls, ...

The top command is one of the most useful commands for getting a quick glimpse into how your Unix server is performing. The Linux top command has been around since 1984, helping Linux admins gauge ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...