The general structure for using the whereis command on Linux is shown below: whereis [options] [fileName] ... The whereis command can accept several options that are used to achieve a specific ...

As Terry Lambert, the developer behind Linux ancestor Unix ... student with a hobby project, I can't stress enough the importance of understanding the commands you're using.

Such is the quality of the graphical user interfaces in many modern Linux distributions that there’s simply no need, in general. Yet the command line can be a highly efficient way of getting ...

While all three of these Linux commands can be used to download files, if you want to know my preference, it's wget all the way (unless I need to add a layer of security, at which point I use scp).

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...