Sometimes I need a shortcut to make things a bit faster. There are also situations where my memory needs a helping hand with the litany of commands I use throughout the week. That's why I often turn ...

Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too. Want to get work done a little faster, spend less time remembering commands and maybe even ...

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 ...

Shell builtins are commands that are loaded into memory when a shell — such as bash, sh, or zsh — is invoked. The reason for this is that keeping these commands in memory helps ensure that these ...

I added alias to .bash_profile file.<BR>alias mysqlcon="mysql -h localhost -u user -ppass pic"<BR><BR>Why each time I reboot the computer I have to do . .bash_profile? When I do this, the alias works.

For a project, I have a set of "fork" directories which are duplicates of a "baseline" directory, but with some modified and some additional files. A large number of these files in these "fork" ...