Starship is every bit as good on Linux and macOS as it is on Windows, though there is no shortage of great terminal alternatives on those platforms. That's why it's particularly special on Windows, as ...

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 ...

At Build 2016, Microsoft showcased something almost unbelievable, the Linux Bash shell running natively on the Windows 10 operating system, using Ubuntu binaries. Kevin Gallo, director of the Windows ...

If you're new to Linux, the biggest change from Windows or macOS is probably the command line. Depending on how you use Linux, you might not have to dip into the terminal often, but you will have to ...

macOS 10.15 Catalina brought many big changes to the Mac, like lack of support for legacy 32-bit apps, but one that you could easily have missed is the default Terminal shell switching from bash (the ...

Let's explore some cool and useful things you can do directly in the terminal without diving too deep into its complexity.

Windows Terminal, by default, uses Windows PowerShell as its command-line interpreter. If you use Command Prompt or any other command-line interpreter, you may want to change the default shell in ...

The Bash Terminal shell in OS X (or other Unix-like systems, for that matter) contains a history feature that can be quite useful. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...

If you use the terminal, you may run into a problem where the terminal will display a new window but will not show you a command prompt. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

The Mac Terminal app is your window into macOS's UNIX underpinnings. Here's how to customize the appearance of Terminal in macOS. The UNIX operating system standard goes back decades. To 1970 in fact, ...