The developers of Ubuntu Linux have worked hard to make their operating system easy for businesses to set up, use and maintain. There are still occasions, however, when a member of your Information ...

A useful thing that some distros have started doing is setting the color of your shell prompt differently if you're logged in as root. This gives you an additional visual cue that helps avoid doing ...

The LinDesk weblog runs down the process of customizing the shell prompt to trim the current path down to a reasonable character limit—making typing long commands much simpler while under deeply ...

Command Prompt (CMD) has been around since Windows NT, and almost everyone who uses Windows is familiar with it. It is a powerful CLI tool that allows you to interact with your computer using ...

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Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

When you use Terminal in 10.3 and 10.4, you’re probably using the bash shell—it’s the default, unless you’re using an upgrade install that was previously using tcsh. If you’re not familiar with what a ...