This clever trick will pull up a file browser on demand. Certainly we're not the only ones who, while staring at the command prompt, realized that the file we wanted to access was 87 long ...

Press "Alt-F2" to open a command line prompt within Unity. Type the command for Evince with your PDF file's name, file extension and its full path relative to the Home directory.

Swiss File Knife command line leys you Search and convert text files, instant simple FTP/HTTP server, find duplicate files, compare folders, treesize, etc.

If you want to open the Command Prompt window on your Login screen or the Boot screen in Windows, here are different ways to do it.

The "open" program is specific to OS X and lets you basically drag and drop a file with the -a command onto an application. This way it overrides the per-user OBJ open-with settings.

Renaming multiple files one-by-one can be a boring and time-consuming task, particularly when you have a lot of them ...

From the command line, type "backup.bat" and the batch file will run your specified commands: first, copying all files from that directory, then renaming them to remove the extensions.

Jack Wallen shows you how to locate files on the Linux directory hierarchy using the find command.

If you want to open an Elevated Command Prompt, which is one that runs with Administrator privileges, you can see the How to open a Windows 10 Elevated Command Prompt article instead.

Web site Hackaddict.net demonstrates how to remove the contents of a plain text file on Windows, Linux, and Mac without manually deleting the file ...