IBM author Michael Stutz lists several ways UNIX users can benchmark and increase their productivity at the command line. One is to use the built in history tool to review what programs you use the ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Memory is still one of the things that most determines how well your Unix servers will perform. Knowing what commands will tell you what you need to know and what their responses mean will help keep ...

Cron is nice and all, but don't forget about its cousin at. When I first started using Linux, it was like being tossed into the deep end of the UNIX pool. You were expected to use the command line ...

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: You’re not an uber-geek, but you appreciate learning little tidbits that make your day-to-day computing life easier. When you read about a clever tip or hint, ...

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server and ...

Two weeks ago, in this column, we looked at some macros and DOS commands that can make your time at the DOS command prompt more like the Unix environment that most of us know and love. In this week’s ...

The Terminal app in macOS keeps track of recent commands you've used so you can reuse them at a later time. Here's how to clear Terminal's command history. When you type commands and press return in ...

If your company handles phone marketing and you use Unix or Linux workstations such as Ubuntu PCs, then you have a few tools at your disposal for advertising. One is the "mailx" command, which allows ...