Quick and efficient command-line alternatives to everyday GUI tasks.

FFmpeg is way cooler than it sounds.

Ubuntu's Gnome-based graphical user interface lets you open and view business documents saved in the PDF format using the Nautilus file manager and a few mouse clicks. Since Ubuntu is a Linux ...

One of the useful features of the Windows Command Prompt (also known as CMD, CMD line or Command line) is creating, or adding, a text file to the current directory. This is especially useful if you ...

Finding a competent enough command line tool is not difficult. The default Windows tool is great, but at the end of the day, it cannot do everything. If you’re out looking for the best, chances are ...

Dozens of fancy point-and-click task managers promise to organize your to-do list, but so often power users find that nothing outdoes that trusty old classic: the todo.txt file. If you're a command ...

If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

I'm looking for a program which can unlock files (like Unlocker) from the command line.<BR><BR>The problem is that we have a batch file that cleans up certain directories, and it's getting errors ...

I should have put this in my book I just learned two Windows command line utilities that I never knew existed: assoc and ftype. Both will display or modify the file association list, and are ...

Before we see how to send command output to a text file in Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Terminal, let us see how the command runs. When you enter a command and hit enter, its output will get ...