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…

10 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

11 months ago