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, ...

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 ...

One of the things ssh can do is execute a command on a remote server. Most of us expect it to work transparently when doing so, simply passing the command and its arguments on without any surprises in ...

So I'm relatively new to C++ and I am writing code targeted to a Linux platform. I can't seem to find a preferred/standard way to parse command line arguments. I know I can roll my own parser, but ...

Simply put, I'm attempting to pass arguments from the command line and access them through LISP. To note, I'm using Allegro Common Lisp from the shell (not emacs).<BR><BR>At any rate, I read somewhere ...

Auto-completion is a great way to make your own tools more accessible. Find out how to take the first steps by building a simple Bash and zsh auto-complete script. Autocomplete—found everywhere from ...