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 ...

Here are some warm-up exercises for anyone just starting to use the Linux command line. Warning: It can be addictive. If you’re new to Linux or have simply never bothered to explore the command line, ...

Click to viewThat Mac you're viewing this web page on using a pretty graphical interface? That's a Unix-based system which can run the powerful and age old command line utilities of the most advanced ...

Well, that moment happened a few weeks ago to me. My boss came up to me and asked me for a beginner's guide to Linux for a new tech that had just started. After nearly 14 years in IT and Linux ...

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 ...

I've been using Linux for a very long time, and from day 1, the terminal window and command-line interface (CLI) have been an integral part of my work. At the same time, I've learned that it's OK to ...

Finding the version of Clojure you are using is as simple as executing one of the following commands inside the Clojure REPL, which you can enter by running clojure: # clojure Clojure 1.8.0 user=> ...