What are Command Line Arguments and why would you use them? Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on ...

This post covers some well-known Linux commands that, when used with particular options and arguments, can save you some time or ensure that what you are doing is what you intended. The first “trick” ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

Finding the version of Clojure you are using is as simple as executing one of the following commands inside the Clojure REPL, which you can enter by running clojure: # clojure Clojure 1.8.0 user=> ...

As a relatively isolated junior sysadmin, I remember seeing answers on Experts Exchange and later Stack Exchange that baffled me. Authors and commenters might chain 10 commands together with pipes and ...

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious. Exit codes on the Linux command line are numeric values that provide feedback ...

I use Linux for both desktop and server. My preference for a server OS is one without a GUI, which means I have to turn to a lot of command-line tools. In some cases, I prefer to use the same ...

When I started my own Linux journey, I was adamant about not even touching a terminal window. As if the command line was this diseased, disgusting thing. "If I can't do it with a GUI then I'm not even ...