easierbuntu

One of the original philosophies behind Unix is that each program should do one thing only, and do it well, and by and large most command-li...

The grep command is one of the most useful in Linux. It may not seem that exciting at first, but once you learn about pipes (next time!) you...

One of the central philosophies behind Unix, which Linux has inherited from it, is that configuration files should be plain text. This has t...

You may have noticed that I've pushed the use of the command line (or, to give it the proper name, the shell ), over graphical utilities...

Ubuntu offers a huge range of software from the repositories that cover all kinds of needs. For any one piece of software you can name that ...

It's quite likely that if you've been using Linux for any great length of time, you'll have discovered tar files. If you go to a...

Something we haven't touched on yet is permissions in Ubuntu. The concept of permissions is highly important to how Linux works. As you ...