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4 Linux commands that will make your terminal look incredible

Your terminal doesn't have to look like a boring block of white-on-black text. Personalizing it so much easier than it seems.
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Major Bash Vulnerability Affects Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching. A critical vulnerability in ...
Network World

Bash: A primer for more effective use of the Linux bash shell

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 ...
Network World

Using bash’s shopt builtin to manage Linux shell behavior

The shopt builtin offers 53 settings that can alter how bash behaves. Read this post and then refer to bash's man page to follow up on how these settings might work for you. If you haven’t tried it ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Adds Support for Linux Bash Shell on Windows

Microsoft explained a little more about its support for the Bash shell on Windows, as unveiled during its Build keynote talk on Wednesday. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool ...
PC World

Windows 10’s Bash shell can run graphical Linux applications with this trick

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...