Many different Linux distributions will display their version information in one place or another in the GUI. If you need to pull this information quickly, it may just be easier to open a terminal window and find it from the command line. Continue reading
I’ve got a huge number of digital photos on my computer that need to be organized. What I would like to do is sort the pictures by the date they were taken. The first step to sorting the pictures is to know the date they were taken. As long as the clock is properly set on your camera, your pictures should have the correct date and time of the photo stored in the image’s EXIF data. You can view an image’s EXIF data using the identify command. Continue reading
Hopefully by now you understand the need to have a strong password for your computer login. Perhaps you selected your password when you first installed GNU/Linux and you’ve never changed it. Maybe you don’t even know how to change it. Today I’ll show you how to change your password from the command line. Continue reading
Most Linux users are familiar with using the ps and kill commands from the Linux terminal to list and kill processes. Many Windows users are also familiar with ending errant processes by using the Windows Task Manager. But what if Task Manager won’t work? Continue reading
In my job as a mechanical engineer, I work with large text files for finite element analysis models. I sometimes have to run several iterations to evaluate different design proposals and I need to check my models against the baseline to make sure that only the intended changes are included. The tool I use to compare files is diff. Continue reading