These are called "wildcards," and they can make your life in the Linux terminal much easier. Wildcard characters, also known ...

Examples A good way to get a quick flavor of the shell’s idiosyncracies is to contrast it with the usual shell syntax. The Github page has several good examples: ...

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 ...

It used to be one of the joys of writing embedded software was never having to deploy shell scripts. But now with platforms like the Raspberry Pi becoming very common, Linux shell scripts can be a ...

The working examples presented here assume a basic familiarity with command-line syntax, simple shell constructs and some of the not-so-uncommon Linux commands. Even so, the command-line examples are ...

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.

Linux built-ins are commands that are part of a user’s shell. Sandra Henry-Stocker explains how to recognize them and get help on their use.

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