This morning, I received a message from a friend who was reading a hack log, and she had some questions about the commands used. This got me thinking, as Linux has a ton of commands and some can ...

After Microsoft rolled out its Linux subsystem for Windows 10, users worked out a number of surprising hacks. Here are some of our favorites ...

You can hardly mention the sudo command without recalling the hilarious XKCD strip about making sandwiches. It does seem like sudo is the magic power to make a Linux system do what you want.

Our Linux cheat sheet includes some of the most commonly used commands along with brief explanations and examples of what the commands can do.

He first thought he had found a way to make the embedded Linux launch user provided scripts and execute commands by making a special HTTP POST request… which failed due to a small technicality.

Beyond that, there's also the dreaded running-the-right-command-on-the-wrong-server mistake. I think every sysadmin has typed halt, rm -rf or some other destructive command in the wrong terminal at ...