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 ...

Is there a way to make all modifications I have made to my .bashrc file (new aliases, functions and scripts) without having to exit the current shell that I am in and starting a new one (currently ...

Setting up aliases on Linux systems can save you a lot of time and trouble on the command line. This post shows how to set up and manage aliases and provides a number of examples on how and why to use ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...

Sometimes, you may see advice that suggests using full paths in your aliases. Stop a moment. Is that really the behavior you want, and how can you even decide? An alias is a shorter way of typing a ...