After two and a half decades of working with Unix, I’ve seen a lot of change in my favorite OS and, at the same time, retained a number of favorite commands that continue to keep my job as a Unix ...

ITworld.com – One of the more frustrating aspects of learning Unix, or just about any computer language for that matter, is trying to recall the names of unfamiliar commands. This is especially ...

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server and ...

I’ve heard that those who can’t remember history are condemned to repeat it but for Unix users, repeating history is not only advantageous, it’s something of a skill. When working on the command line, ...