Do you want to use Linux, but are afraid that you'll have to use the command line? Fret not, as there is probably a GUI that can handle the command you might need.

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...

The diff command has well over 60 options – suggesting that it’s a lot more complicated and versatile than you might have come to expect. Read more of Sandra Henry - Stocker 's Unix as a Second ...

Every now and then I come across a feature of some Linux command that works so well that I have trouble understanding how I managed without it for so long. The one that I most recently discovered is ...

You can execute UNIX commands from your SAS session either asynchronously or synchronously. When you run a command as an asynchronous task, the command executes independently of all other tasks that ...

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 ...

Click to viewThat Mac you're viewing this web page on using a pretty graphical interface? That's a Unix-based system which can run the powerful and age old command line utilities of the most advanced ...

Ah, RTFM: the battle cry of acronym-loving nerds everywhere, which loosely translates into Read The Frackin' Manual. But where is this coveted Manual? And how does an earnest newb find it? At the Unix ...

Today’s hint will probably only appeal to those of you learning to use the Unix side of OS X. A while back, I was trying to capture the ouput of the Unix command httpd -t (which runs a syntax check on ...

Tired of typing long commands in a terminal? Here are some GUI alternatives you can swap in for classic Linux terminal tools.