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Sergey Nivens - Fotolia To properly use a command line in Linux, you must consider two factors: if you need sudo permissions and what commands you want to use. The answers depend on the scale of your operations, what permissions you…
A command-line interface (CLI) is a text-based user interface (UI) used to run programs, manage computer files and interact with the computer. Command-line interfaces are also called command-line user interfaces, console user interfaces and character user interfaces. CLIs accept as input…
Terminal output can be useful to review alongside the commands that produced it. The Linux script command records an interactive terminal session in a file called a typescript, which contains entered commands and visible results. I’ll show you how to…
After a command is installed, its name may be clear while the executable’s location is not. The which command searches directories in PATH, the list of places used to find commands, and prints the path of a matching executable. You’ll…
Terminal checks can go stale while you read their output. The Linux watch command reruns a command at intervals and displays its current output in a terminal. In this piece, I’ll show you how to set a refresh interval and…
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When he moved to Aurora a couple years ago to raise his family, Jason Ti was impressed with how popular walking was in the community and nearby green spaces. It was something he had enjoyed when he had lived in…
Looking up a command while working in a shell can interrupt the task you are trying to finish. A Linux command cheat sheet groups common commands by task and gives you a starting point for using them. I’ll show how…
Graphical user interfaces for DOS were a dime-a-dozen back in the ’90s, but of course faded into irrelevance as time went on. But what if you still run DOS today, and want a maintained graphical shell instead of the rather limited…