What do these file system and directory names tell us about the intended content? To best understand why particular conventions were adopted, hark back to the early days of Unix and how the ...

Addresses manipulating and maintaining files within the UNIX file system; creating and editing text files using the vi and ed editors; using pipes, redirection, and filters; using advanced text ...

Today, we will look at a script that provides more information on the processes keeping a file system busy by using fuser to supply process IDs to ps and ps to then display additional information ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...