GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

wsh is a custom Unix shell that replicates and extends the functionality of traditional Unix/Linux shells. It was developed as part of the CS 537: Introduction to Operating Systems course at the ...

Built-in commands: "exit", "cd", and "pwd" are the built-in commands support by this shell. Loops: This shell supports the looping of built-in commands, commands with output redirected to files, ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

That sequence of strange symbols on the Bash command line must mean something, right? We're breaking down special characters ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...