Just because a Unix command is one those most of us learn within the first few hours of our exposure to a Unix/Linux OS doesn’t mean we have grasped the many ways in which it can be used to make our ...

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 ...

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.

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

Matisse.net hosts a list of Unix commands unique to Mac OS X/Darwin. You'll find a lot of good stuff in that list that you might not have been aware of. These are ...