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 ...

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

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 ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

I'd say one of the greatest obstacles to Windows PowerShell adoption is the belief that you have to learn how to use a command line. I've come across more than one IT pro in my career -- including a ...

Windows 8.1 brought a few changes to the handy Win+X menu, including a new Shut Down option and the addition of PowerShell shortcuts. If you're more of a command prompt user, though, you can bring the ...

If you're working in a Linux environment, chances are you've encountered environment variables—even if you didn’t realize it at the time. They quietly power much of what goes on behind the scenes in ...

One of the last vestiges of the old MS-DOS days, the Command Prompt, is looking like an endangered species. The latest Windows 10 preview build puts the Windows PowerShell, first introduced on Windows ...