Author Archives: Dave McKay

If you want color highlighting in your man pages similar to the syntax highlighting in an editor, there are two simple ways you can achieve it. We’ll show you both!Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

Want your new Linux program to look professional? Give it a man page. We’ll show you the easiest, and fastest, way to do it.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

You can extract text from images on the Linux command line using the Tesseract OCR engine. It’s fast, accurate, and works in about 100 languages. Here’s how to use it.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

On Linux, fd is an easier alternative to the find command. It has a simplified syntax, uses sensible defaults, and has built-in common-sense behavior. Let’s take it through its paces.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

The ss command is a modern replacement for the classic netstat. You can use it on Linux to get statistics about your network connections. Here’s how to work with this handy tool.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

Want to safely delete unnecessary files from your Linux operating system, reclaim hard-drive space, and protect your privacy? BleachBit does all of this for you!Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

A whois lookup will tell you a lot of information about who owns an internet domain. On Linux, you can run whois lookups from the command line. We’ll walk you through it.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

Linux took its inspiration from Unix, but Linux isn’t Unix—although it’s definitely Unix-like. We will  explain the major differences between these two famous operating systems.Read This Article on How-To Geek › Continue reading →

Wireshark is a world-class packet analyzer available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Its filters are flexible and sophisticated, but sometimes, counterintuitive. We’ll explain the “gotchas” you need to be on the lookout for.Read This Ar… Continue reading →

You can use pandoc on Linux to convert between more than 40 file formats. You can also use it to create a simple docs-as-code system by writing in Markdown, storing in git, and publishing in any of its supported formats.Read This Article on How-To Geek… Continue reading →