GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system. For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools — including most of the essentials like ...

uname: Shows device and kernel information. # Shows architecture of the current server uname -m # Shows kernel uname -r # Shows all the options of the OS uname -a vi: Opens the text editor. Tips. VI ...

The mysql command-line tool, or "MySQL Monitor", may be used on Socrates and Plato. The Unix command line options are documented in the Unix man page man mysql. If you type "help" in mysql, it will ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate time ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...