A few clever Linux commands can make it a lot easier to create, view and remove complex directory structures.

Jack Wallen walks you through creating new users and groups on Linux and adding those new users to the new groups.

If you're new to Linux administration, Jack Wallen shows you a skill you'll definitely need to have--creating directories from the command line interface.

Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn During your lifetime with Linux, you may use 1% of those commands. For file and folder management, that number dwindles.

Ubuntu 8.10, the release of the popular Linux distribution due out Oct. 30 (and code-named Intrepid Ibex), will give every user an encrypted private directory by default, one that mounts with you ...

What is an alias? An alias is a kind of text-base short-cut when using terminal (Linux/Unix/Mac's command-line interface). For example, in terminal we could access a folder by a commands such as: cd ...