Have you ever needed to find all the PDF files on your drive, and organize them into one place?

Ever needed to make a quick adjustment to the php.ini file but you weren't sure where it was? Here's a quick command you can use.

Have you ever been on a system that has a whole bunch of aliases, like changing rm to rm -i, and you want it to work the way you're used to?  There's an easy way to do it.

Ever forgotten to run the last command with sudo at the beginning? Here's how to re-run the command with sudo at the beginning, without re-typing the whole thing:

You might want to reuse all of the arguments to a previous command in the shell if you realized you want to open the file with a different utility, but don't feel like typing out the whole path again.

Have you ever typed out a really long command, realized it worked great, and then wanted to save it to a file? There's an easy bash trick you can use to do just that.

If you're working on a project, and you've copied in or created a whole bunch of new files, you might find it tedious to manually add each of them. Here's the quick command you can use instead.

If you want to quickly see what processes are wasting all of your memory, you can do so with a simple command.

If you've got a web application that uploads files to the server through a PHP script, you might have noticed that by default you can't upload terribly large files. Here's how to change it.

Have you ever used a tail -f on a logfile, only to find that it's scrolling by way too fast for you to deal with?

Changing the group a user is associated to is a fairly easy task, but not everybody knows the commands, especially to add a user to a secondary group.

Have you ever needed to quickly share a folder with another machine?

If you use the rsync utility to keep your backups synchronized from your database server over to your backup or secondary file server, you might want to prevent the script from using too much bandwidth. Here's how.

Keeping your servers clutter-free is easy with Disk Cleanup, and scheduling a cleanup makes it effortless.

Keeping your hard drive clutter-free is essential to having a well run server. The tool to accomplish this is Disk Cleanup, but it is conspicuously missing in Server 2008… or is it?

For frequent PowerShell users, the standard settings might not be ideal. We can change the settings of our PowerShell window to how we like it by modifying the profile.

Typing out full commands all the time can be tiresome, but aliases make things a snap. Check it out!

In our previous article, we showed you the fastest way to go from a simple list of users to their creation in Active Directory. However, you’ll frequently get a list of users that will have extra data fields. Since we can’t write a script ahead of time for every possible scenario, we’ll show you how to take our user creation PowerShell script and modify it to suit your purpose.

Creating users through the AD Users and Computers snap-in is a very easy process, but you’ll frequently face the situation where you need to create accounts for a whole group of people at once. We've made it super easy.

Another great feature of Server 2008 is how the Delegation of Control Wizard simplifies adding rights for common tasks to groups or administrators. Let's review.