The find command is one of the most basic Unix commands, but that doesn't mean you're making good use of its many features.

Find is not just useful for locating files, but also for doing things with the files once it finds them. You can find files based on numerous criteria — their names, their owners, their size, etc. — ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

If you use PuTTY on a Windows box to connect to your Unix systems, here’s what you have to do to use the pscp command. First, you need to open a DOS command prompt. On some versions of Windows ...

Today’s hint will probably only appeal to those of you learning to use the Unix side of OS X. A while back, I was trying to capture the ouput of the Unix command httpd -t (which runs a syntax check on ...

See additional Unix tips and tricks The fuser (pronounced “ef-user”) command is a very handy command for determining who is currently using a particular file or directory.

If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an easy hack to embed Cygwin's commands into your standard Windows comand prompt; if not, it might be worth checking out the free download.