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 ...

A couple of days ago we discussed some problems that could arise with sizing files with HFS compression. This problem basically arises from there being a lack of consistency in the various utilities ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...

Moving from Windows to Linux? Here are the networking commands to use instead—plus a WSL bonus.

I use the Linux command line daily, but that's because I learned Linux the hard way and those old lessons stuck. Most users could go their entire Linux lifetime and never run a single command. Some ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

7 deprecated Linux commands you need to stop using - and what to use instead ...