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 ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>Can anyone give me a hand with this:<BR><BR>I want to export a unix text file to excel. How can I do it?<BR>As far as I know if the fields in the unix file are separated by commas it ...

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 ...

Espnix provides a lightweight Unix-like environment for microcontrollers, offering familiar shell commands, file system operations, and process management within the constraints of embedded hardware.

Have you ever entered “ls –l” into a UNIX command line and seen something like this? Do you wonder what the “drwxr–r– “ means or why you can’t edit, open, or even read some files or directories? Well, ...

You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very simple! Here’s why you should care, and how to understand the permissions that keep your ...

When someone mentions a “swap file,” the first thing that comes into your mind might be the kind of file that you would create to increase the swap space on a Unix system. Think swapfile and the ...

Unix is a powerful and versatile operating system that has become a popular choice for servers, workstations, and even personal computers. One of the fundamental tasks when working with Unix-based ...