People who have had bad experiences on Windows disks that performed poorly after they had become very fragmented often wonder if they need to apply some kind of periodic analysis and defragmentation ...

Fink is one of several projects that brings easy management of open source Unix programs to OS X. Thanks to the “Darwin” underpinnings in OS X, Mac users can compile and run many useful open source ...

Can anyone give me a hand with this: I want to export a unix text file to excel. How can I do it? As far as I know if the fields in the unix file are separated by commas it would make it posible for ...

There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization. Each ...

While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...

The ZIP archive is recognized by most operating systems, thus making it useful for compressing and archiving files regardless of the OS that your employees or customers use. If your company uses one ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Different implementations of UNIX have historically shown some of their differences by the way they located important files. If a file in this list, particularly a system file, does not appear in the ...

November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...