Linux

Getting help on Linux

There are a lot of ways to get help on Linux, especially when you're getting started and want to learn a number of important commands.

Finding files on Linux in all sorts of ways

There a quite a few ways to narrow your search when trying to find files on a Linux system.

Using PuTTY to connect to Linux

PuTTY can do a lot more than allow you to log into Linux from another system. It also allows you to tailor your window in several ways.

Sharing, compressing and password-protecting files on Linux

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have.

Using aliases on Linux

Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to use them.

Waiting for things to happen on Linux

If you don't want to stop everything you're doing to wait for some other Linux workload to complete, custom scripts and the bash 'wait' built-in can set you free.

Resizing images on the Linux command line

The convert command (part of ImageMagick) can change the resolution of image files faster than you can count to F in hex.

How to quickly make minor changes to complex Linux commands

Taking advantage of the grep command’s many options

The grep command offers interesting options to help you find what you want from text files.

Four ways to view files and file permissions on Linux

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux.