The passwd file lists the user accounts on a Unix system, along with their user and group ID numbers, their home directory, and the path to the corresponding command or shell.

What do these file system and directory names tell us about the intended content? To best understand why particular conventions were adopted, hark back to the early days of Unix and how the ...

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system.

Today, we will look at a script that provides more information on the processes keeping a file system busy by using fuser to supply process IDs to ps and ps to then display additional information ...

Another option for moving files between Unix and Windows systems it to make a drive or folder available by “sharing” it. Both Unix and Windows have commands for this.

You can allocate a UNIX System Services file either externally (using a JCL DD statement or the TSO ALLOCATE command) or internally (using the SAS FILENAME statement or FILENAME function). For ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect.

Hfsdebug Hfsdebug is a third-party command-line utility that outputs information stored in the file system's catalog and attributes files. To install it, download the precompiled executable from ...