For as long as https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/index/operating_systems/linux_unix.html has existed, PC World editors have watched closely as the open source OS ...

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 ...

When working in the Linux terminal window, you have a lot of options for moving on the Linux command line; backing up over a command you’ve just typed is only one of them. We likely all use the ...

Whether you want to learn Linux command line basics or advanced skills, these Coursera classes have you covered. Linux is one of the popular operating systems and has seen wide adoption across the ...

Well, that moment happened a few weeks ago to me. My boss came up to me and asked me for a beginner's guide to Linux for a new tech that had just started. After nearly 14 years in IT and Linux ...

If you use Linux and its associated tools on the desktop or on a Raspberry Pi, or on a server, you probably have used the command line. Some people love it and some people hate it. However, many of us ...

The first format I'm going to cover is the Portable Document Format (PDF). Although PDFs are aimed at capturing a document so that it looks the same to everyone, it turns out you also can strip out ...

It is no secret that most Linux power users use the shell for many tasks, as for people who know what they are doing, it can be quite efficient. In addition, there are some tasks that can only be ...

The quirk revolved around sudo's treatment of user IDs. If you typed the command with a user ID of -1 or its unsigned equivalent 4294967295, it would treat you as if you had root access (user ID 0) ...