If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh.

Unix, of course, invented the pipelining concept. But in Unix-like systems -- including Linux and OS X -- the data that's passed from one command to the next is weakly structured ASCII text.

A built-in is a Linux command that's part of whatever shell you're using. Can you tell what commands are built-ins and which are not?

One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional command line tools, everything is a stream of bytes. Granted, modern software has blurred this a bit, but at the comman… ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

Press "Ctrl-Alt-F1" to open a virtual Linux terminal. Log in to the virtual terminal using your normal username and password to open a local shell session in your Home directory.

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script.