Do you wonder why you can't edit, execute, or even open some UNIX files and directories? It's all in the permissions. Find out how you read these permissions and make them work for you.

Fink is one of several projects that brings easy management of open source Unix programs to OS X.

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

To open a particular file in a directory for input or output, you must specify the file name in the SAS INFILE or FILE statement, as described in Accessing a Particular File in a UNIX System Services ...

Thinkstock Samba 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. To share ...

The only thing that’s really hard about extracting from archives on Unix systems is remembering all of the commands and the required options. When you have ten or more possible archive types and ...

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names — like /etc, /var and /usr/local — came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the ...

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

Unix systems provide numerous ways to compare files. The most common way to verify that you have received or downloaded the proper file is to compute a checksum and compare it against one computed ...