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 ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I need to write a script the lists the files in a specific directory that have been modified in the last 24hrs.<BR><BR>In unix, I could just run <pre class ...

When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...

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 ...

The cd command (change directory) moves you from one directory to another. In Unix lingo, it changes the working directory; this is the directory in which you are located, and the one in which you can ...