If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

Hello,<BR><BR>My bro downloaded some avi file that's been causing problems. Whenever I go into the directory it's in to delete it, once I click on it, my system resources shoot up to 100% and stay ...

Of course, the arguments that you pass to the basename and dirname commands don’t actually have to be paths. They don’t have to exist on your system or any system for that matter. They just have to ...

Sed is a non-interactive text editor that operates on piped input or text files. By providing it with instructions, you can make it modify and process text in files or streams. The most common use ...

If you can't back up your data in an air-gapped solution, here's an alternative to saving your files. In my own organization, I back up my data using a continuous data protection system. In addition, ...

I have a script for Maya and Photoshop that I'm trying to make compatible for Windows users. Maya's MEL scripting lets you send system commands so I have a simple command line script for OS X that ...

For all those users, who need to download large sample files for testing purposes from time to time, this native feature of Windows 11/10 is surely very useful. Instead of searching the internet to ...