Shells & Terminals

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (1531+ words) Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a free and open-source shell and scripting language. Its journey started in the late 80s, and since then, the Bash has been adopted by routine Linux users and Linux SysAdmins. Bash has automated the daily tasks…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (830+ words) Shell scripts enable every level of system administration and user interaction on Unix and Linux systems. Several system administration tasks can be automated with shell scripts. Disaster recovery procedures are mostly shell scripts. And end users even learn shell scripts…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (195+ words) Despite reports to the contrary — thanks AI slop! — users upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) will indeed find GNU coreutils replaced with the Rust-written alternative uutils. (It isn't just the default for new installs.) With uutils only passing ~80% of the original…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (489+ words) If you use Linux and spend a decent amount of time in the terminal, zoxide is one of those little tools that's absolutely worth trying if you haven't already. It makes jumping between directories ridiculously fast by remembering the places…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (60+ words) Microsoft has released Intelligent Terminal 0.2.2572, an update to its experimental, open-source fork of Windows Terminal that integrates AI agents such as GitH...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1469+ words) Bash keeps your history in two places, and the list that the history command prints is not the file the next shell reads. I ran history -c on a test session and printed the file straight afterwards, and every line…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1951+ words) Any text file on a Linux system is an ordinary file you can open and change, whether it holds a hosts entry, an Nginx server block, or a shell script. Typing the new text is easy, and the key that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (377+ words) A 20-year-old UF student wanted to find a way to help beachgoers safely plan their day at the shore. FOX 13's Jennifer Kveglis has the story. TAMPA, Fla - Before heading to the beach, one University of Florida Junior wants people…...