If you spend much time on the Linux command line (and you probably wouldn’t be reading this if you didn’t), you’ve undoubtedly noticed that the ls command displays your files in a number of different ...

I use the Linux command line daily, but that's because I learned Linux the hard way and those old lessons stuck. Most users could go their entire Linux lifetime and never run a single command. Some ...

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 ...