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” ...

(The below post is brought to you from years of being irritated by other programmers' quirky command line syntax, and my acknowledgement that for many small apps, doing it "right" can take up way too ...

Microsoft has released Windows Terminal v0.9, which adds command-line arguments, automatic creation of PowerShell profiles, and a new setting that you lets you close all tabs without confirmation.

Real men print it out on a line printer that needs a ribbon change and then enter it character by character, using only shell heredocs.

One of the things that has always been lacking is good all-in-one documentation on the various Windows console commands and how to use them. Yeah, we always had the "help" command in the Command ...

In the April 2017 issue, I wrote about how to use ticketing systems as a sysadmin to organize your tasks better. In that article, I made a brief reference to the fact that I've integrated some of my ...

Finding the version of Clojure you are using is as simple as executing one of the following commands inside the Clojure REPL, which you can enter by running clojure: # clojure Clojure 1.8.0 user=> ...

Can you do math on the Linux command line? You sure can! In fact, there are quite a few commands that can make the process easy and some you might even find interesting. Let’s look at some very useful ...