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What is Command Prompt (CMD)?
The Command Prompt, commonly known as CMD, often feels intimidating and somewhat mysterious to many Windows users. For most people, it’s the black window with white text they’d rather not deal with unless forced by circumstance. Typically, readers who find our Command Prompt tutorials on Digital Citizen are either students who need to master it for their exams or IT…
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How I Troubleshoot Windows Using Command Prompt
I can’t recall a single month since I started using Windows when I haven’t encountered an issue. Whenever something goes wrong, I turn to the built-in Windows tool: Command Prompt. It may look daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a powerful ally for resolving issues. 5 Repair Corrupted System Files When my computer…
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Amazon Fire TV Has a Command Line, Here’s How to Access It
Summary Fire TV uses Android as its base OS, enabling access to ADB for a full Linux command line experience. Enabling ADB on Fire TV is straightforward through Developer Options to access a full command line. ADB allows for various functions on Fire TV like controlling media playback or triggering remote button actions. Did you know that Amazon’s Fire TV…
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This Linux Terminal Tool Supercharges the history Command
Summary The history command stores and displays previous commands, but Atuin enhances this with cross-host sync and a powerful interface. Atuin replaces the default history functionality, improving navigation and search through a TUI and advanced features. Atuin can be easily installed and customized, offering context-specific history, stats, and many configurable options. Spending all day tapping those arrow keys in the…
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How to create bootable Windows 11 USB with Command Prompt
UPDATED 3/5/2025: You can use Command Prompt with the DiskPart tool to create a Windows 11 USB bootable media, and in this guide, I’ll outline the steps to complete the process. On Windows 11, you can create a USB bootable media with several tools, including the Media Creation Tool and popular third-party tools like Rufus and Ventoy. However, you can…
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Have Your Linux Terminal Read to You With the espeak Command
Summary eSpeak lets you listen to your terminal commands instead of just reading them. You can install eSpeak through your default package manager such as uisng APT, DNF, or YUM. With various eSpeak options, you can adjust output speech, increase or decrease speech rate, and even choose different languages and accents. Want to listen to log files, command output, file…
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44 keyboard shortcuts for Command Prompt (Windows 10 & Windows 11)
Most power users love the Command Prompt because it’s a straightforward way to run text-based commands and administrative tasks. Fortunately, over time, Microsoft improved the Command Prompt by adding many handy keyboard shortcuts in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. In this article, I’ll show you some of the best keyboard shortcuts for CMD so that you can work faster…
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New Aquabotv3 botnet malware targets Mitel command injection flaw
A new variant of the Mirai-based botnet malware Aquabot has been observed actively exploiting CVE-2024-41710, a command injection vulnerability in Mitel SIP phones. The activity was discovered by Akamai’s Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT), who reports that this is the third variant of Aquabot that falls under their radar. The malware family was introduced in 2023, and a second…
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How To Use htop Command in Linux
The htop is a CLI utility to check an interactive list of running processes in real-time. It is a more feature-rich and user-friendly alternative to the top command. The htop command allows you to manage system processes, monitor resources, and perform other administration tasks. One of the most prominent features of htop is that it shows color-coded processes, which helps…
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How To Use Traceroute Command in Linux
Operating systems use packets for transferring the data on a network. These are small chunks of information that carry data and travel among devices. Moreover, when any network problem arises, packets aid in identifying the root cause of the underlying problem. How? By tracing the route of those packets. The traceroute command in Linux helps you map the path packets…
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