One reason a lot of people get started with the Linux terminal is to use ImageMagick and FFmpeg. These are popular tools for converting image and video files. One reason you might want to do this is ...

1. The big one: rm -rf / This is the command every Linux administrator knows -- or should know, anyway -- to avoid. By itself, rm is very handy. It enables you to delete even the most stubborn files.

The Linux command line is a text interface to your computer. Also known as shell, terminal, console, command prompts and many others, is a computer program intended to interpret commands. Allows users ...

Understand basic Linux programming, commands, configurations and installation. Learning Ubuntu Linux Server: An 11-step guide to getting your first Ubuntu Linux server up and running, perfect for ...

The first command started the wget program as a task (task 0, in fact). Running tsp shows all the jobs in the queue (in this case, only one and it is done).

Free software licenses and operating systems like GNU/Linux make it possible to learn programming and customize state-of-the-art software in countless ways. Hacking software, however, isn't the last ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher Prentice Hall, all rights ...

Fortunately, Debian-based Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, allow you to quickly uninstall most programs using the command line utility apt-get or a graphic user interface application like Ubuntu ...