Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

For all of Windows 10's icons and tiles, sometimes, only the Command Prompt will do what you need to do. Learn these four special tricks to work smarter with your PC.

I often profess that Linux can be used without the command line, but at some point, you might want to learn it anyway. When you do, consider these commands.

But these simple commands can be strung together using ‘pipe’ (‘|’), a shell feature that funnels the output of one command into another, thus creating powerful bespoke workflows.

Command line arguments are extra commands you can use when launching a program so that the program's functionality will change. Depending on the program, these arguments can be used to add more ...

This is done by an application in the Macintosh HD > System > Library > CoreServices folder called "Install Command Line Developer Tools." However, this program cannot be launched independently.

And the team is working on integrating Prompt with Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, Viber, Skype and HipChat, and — for real geeks — a command-line utility, says Hadfield.

The ls command is a well-known and often used command-line program that is used to list directory contents by name; in fact, it could be argued that it is the most used Linux command-line program ...

All in all it's a solid program. I suspect many will try it for the gimmick of having command line chat, but I also suspect many of those will keep using the program once the novelty has worn off.