MPlayer and MEncoder have considerable potential, and you can control them by means of intelligent command-line options. We’ll put both programs to work.

On August 20, developer Andreas Krennmair announced the official release of Newsbeuter, the “mutt of RSS feed readers.”

The first step towards improving a system's security, is discovering the status quo. Lynis, a small command line program helps users do so.

The ntfsprogs toolset lets you manage NTFS resources from the Linux command line.

The Diffutils tool set helps you compare text files, discover and display the differences between files, and even automatically synchronize files.

Developers, LaTeX users, and system administrators can all harness the power of make.

FTP and NcFTP are both FTP clients for the command line. While FTP only has basic file transfer functionality, NcFTP has a whole bunch of additional features.

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.