is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Apple hasn’t explained exactly why it’s making this change, but bash isn’t exactly ...

Yesterday, at its WWDC developer conference, Apple unveiled the latest version of the MacOS operating system. Codenamed Catalina, it’s a fairly significant update for the platform, not least because ...

If you use the terminal a lot, you can probably understand the frequent pain of typing out long commands. Bash's tab completion is ineffective, file paths are tedious to write, and typos are a ...

The bash and zsh shells are very similar, with zsh being more of a “power-house” shell than bash. Key commands for both shells are similar and knowing these time-saving shortcuts can be a great boon ...

Globbing is a way of expanding wildcard characters in a non-specific file name into a set of specific file names. Shells use globbing all the time. For instance: When you enter the above, you’re using ...

I’ve written a few small command-line utilities in C# using .NET 8, which I’ve published on GitHub. They’re developed on Windows, but I provide prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS. For ...