Do some serious spring cleaning and reorganize your data. The right commands can help you to keep on top of your file and directory management.

A sophisticated system of users and permissions precisely controls who has access to what on Linux. At the command line, you can define ownership with the chmod, chgrp, and chown tools.

The simple mailx command-line mail client handles mail either interactively or via command-line options. Although it lacks the convenience of a GUI-based tool, mailx compares well in scripting.

Network monitors are a dime a dozen, but Nload, which separates incoming and outgoing traffic and draws graphs on the console without X, is unique.

SSH offers a secure approach to working on remote machines and encrypted data transfer. We'll show you other benefits of the secure shell.

Linux consultant Matthias Kettner has just released Version 1.0 of his Waitmax Software. It gives programs a specified time to complete after terminating them.

Moving from version 7.7 to 8.1 gives users of the hard disk tool new options and new information displays.

GIMP isn’t the only option for photo manipulation. ImageMagick, a collection of command-line programs for image processing, can help you process multiple images in one go.