One reason a lot of people get started with the Linux terminal is to use ImageMagick and FFmpeg. These are popular tools for ...

Book Excerpt: A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming by LJ Staff on March 5, 2010 ...

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 ...

Before delving into advanced techniques, you should familiarize yourself with the command line or Terminal, Linux's powerful tool. Here, you can perform tasks by typing a sequence of commands. While ...

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 ...

One of the things that makes Linux and Unix-like systems both powerful and frustrating is that there are many ways to accomplish any particular goal. Take something simple like running a bunch of c… ...

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.

Intel is set to unveil tools that can translate Linux programs written in C++ or Fortran into commands a Pentium 4 or Itanium processor can understand-so Linux will run better on those chips.

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 ...