I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

Linux's oldest commands still work, but these three modern alternatives make finding files, searching, and navigating much easier.

This article presents a list of commands you should be able to find on any Linux installation. These are tools to help you improve your code and be more productive. The list comes from my own ...

Any Linux systems administrator needs to be proficient with a wide range of commands for user management, file handling, system monitoring, networking, security and more. This article covers a range ...

I learned Linux in the 90s when the command line was mandatory - and it's still the best place to start. I remember when I started using Linux in the late 1990s. Back then, using the command line wasn ...