Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems.

The developers of Ubuntu Linux have worked hard to make their operating system easy for businesses to set up, use and maintain. There are still occasions, however, when a member of your Information ...

If you've ever opened PowerShell, Command Prompt, or Windows Terminal and felt underwhelmed by how plain and unhelpful your prompt looks, you're not alone. The default command-line experience on ...

A useful thing that some distros have started doing is setting the color of your shell prompt differently if you're logged in as root. This gives you an additional visual cue that helps avoid doing ...

The Linux terminal isn't nearly as hard as you think. Understanding the fundamentals will help get you started. These concepts apply to all Linux distributions. When many think about Linux, they think ...

Today’s hint is for those of you who, like me, use Terminal often and occasionally have a need to do things there as the root user. If you don’t know what Terminal is, don’t know what the root user is ...

How to use the Shell command in Windows 11 to access the AppsFolder Your email has been sent Power users of Windows 11 may want to access their applications quicker by bypassing the Start Menu. The ...

The Windows Command Prompt certainly isn't the most friendly terminal around, and if you're coming from a UNIX background, it can feel like moving from a Ferrari to Fred Flintstone's car. Luckily, ...

When you use Terminal in 10.3 and 10.4, you’re probably using the bash shell—it’s the default, unless you’re using an upgrade install that was previously using tcsh. If you’re not familiar with what a ...