Are you someone who never met a Unix command you didn't like? OK, maybe not. But are there commands you just can't imagine living without? Let's look at some that have made a big difference on my ...

Get started with Bash, Unix pipes, directory navigation, sudo, Nano, and other command-line essentials ...

IBM author Michael Stutz lists several ways UNIX users can benchmark and increase their productivity at the command line . One is to use the built in ...

Learn how to capture the output of certain Unix commands to the clipboard.

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach.

A third-party offering called Interix greatly extended this with a wide range of common Unix command-line tools. Microsoft bought Interix, rebranding it first as Services For Unix (SFU) and then ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate ...

I know there is a program that allows me to use standard UNIX commands in the Win2k command prompt. I remember a program called cygnus or something but I can't find it using search engines. If ...

There are several softwares to convert text files from UNIX or Linux to DOS operating systems and vice-versa. However, it always helps to know the manual conversion.