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 ...

Shell prompts are, by definition, pretty dull. So, if you spend a lot of time looking at one, why not make it more fun by… replacing it with a hamburger! Actually, you can replace the thing with any ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

The Linux terminal isn't nearly as hard as you think. Understanding the fundamentals will help get you started. These concepts apply to all Linux distributions. When many think about Linux, they think ...

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 ...

If you spend a lot of time at the command line, you probably have either a very basic prompt or a complex, information-dense prompt. If you are in the former camp, or you just want to improve your ...

The Windows Command Prompt certainly isn't the most friendly terminal around, and if you're coming from a UNIX background, it can feel like moving from a Ferrari to Fred Flintstone's car. Luckily, ...