You have thousands of commands at your disposal as a Unix administrator. However, even the most advanced administrators only use a finite number of tools and utilities on an ongoing basis. The ...

Older commands can still be faster—and more flexible, powerful, and accessible too!

Using UNIX in a day-to-day office setting doesn't have to be clumsy. Learn some of the many ways, both simple and complex, to use the power of the UNIX shell and available system tools to greatly ...

In this week’s column, we’re going to take a look at several commands that might save you some time. Each of these commands is easy to use and easy to remember, but just far enough off the beaten ...

I wrote a small Unix shell in C.How are commands like `ls` and `cat`, which we use casually in the terminal, actually ...