Not happy with your Linux distro's default file manager? Stop struggling and try something different. Considering that these are all free, what do you have to lose?

Beneath the surface of the well-known Linux commands lies a treasure trove of lesser-known utilities that can make your life easier, enhance your productivity, and even impress your fellow Linux users ...

Tab completion is a fantastic little feature that adds convenience, saves time, and can even help to prevent mistakes. It’s ...

Using the find command isn’t the most intuitive means of locating files from the command line, but once you get used to it, you’ll find it incredibly powerful and useful.

The Git index, along with the need to use the "git add" command before performing a commit, is often a source of confusion for beginners. These "git add" examples will make things clear.

Jack Wallen explains the Linux source command by way of an example. Sourcing a file in Linux is a very important concept, but it might not be one you’ll use early on in your Linux career.

Viewing the content of files and examining access permissions and such are very different options. This post examines a number of ways to look at files on Linux.

There are many ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file on Linux, but here are two that involve the awk and uniq commands and that offer slightly different results.

But the git config command commonly used to initialize these fields typically employs a global switch, which gets users wondering about Git’s competing local and system scopes. That then leads to the ...

A look at Linux kernel developers' various revision control solutions through the years, Linus Torvalds' decision to use BitKeeper and the controversy that followed, and how Git came to be created.