Command Line

Revisiting Christmas In The Terminal

Well, it's the day before Christmas and a Linux Christmas can mean having Christmas in the terminal. If you do…

1 year ago

Upgrade Linux Mint In The Termanal

If you have chosen Linux Mint as your distro then you have a handy GUI way to upgrade, but today…

1 year ago

Reinstall A Package In Ubuntu

There may come a time when your software has gone awry and you'll want to know how to reinstall a…

1 year ago

Installing Applications With DPKG

If you are installing software via the terminal, you may want to learn more about installing applications with dpkg. It's…

1 year ago

Playing With Your Bash History

Your Linux computer, assuming it's 'normal' will retain the commands you typed in the terminal and this is your Bash…

1 year ago

Monitor Progress With RSYNC

When you're moving a lot of files around you might want to know the progress, so here's how you monitor…

1 year ago

Monitor Your Linux System With NMON

There are times when you want to see what's going on with your devices and you can monitor your Linux…

1 year ago

Repair Your Filesystem With FSCK

Over the years, we've covered the fsck command fairly extensively but I've never really written an article about how you…

1 year ago

Unzip .gz Files With gunzip

You can just as easily do this in a GUI, but we'll be using the Linux terminal to unzip .gz…

1 year ago

Enable fsck On System Start

If you ever want to check your filesystem's health in Linux, you might have wanted to enable fsck on system…

1 year ago