Commands that provide help are essential. Here's a look at some of the help you can get from the Linux system itself. Even after you’ve used Linux for a while, you will still find yourself needing ...

I do have backups, but i have no Unix experience and little Linux experience. Installing Digital Unix, CIRC card catalouge, the backups, and any other apps by monday would be next to ...

Linux built-ins are commands that are built into the shell, much like shelves that are built into a wall. You won’t find them as stand-alone files the way standard Linux commands are stored in ...

Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

Well here we are again, at part two of the 'Getting Help from Linux' series. In this blog post I'll be talking about using Info to get help from Linux. In my previous post I spoke about how Info came ...