No, I’m not referring to your coworkers fighting over which version of Linux is the best or even what command is most helpful on the command line. Instead, I’m referring to the arguments that you use ...

This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

If you aren’t a Linux user and you watch someone who knows what they are doing use Bash — the popular command line interpreter — you might get the impression they type much faster than they actually ...

ITworld.com – Send in your Unix questions today! See additional Unix tips and tricks The set command is a very basic shell command, used to assign values to variables for any kind of manipulation, but ...