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 ...

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 ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

You can’t live very long with a general purpose handyman without hearing how important it is to have the proper tool for nearly any task you’re about to undertake. You don’t use a knife when you need ...