While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...

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 posible for ...

HP announced Monday it is letting its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code run free in the Linux community. Access to this code will provide capabilities that increase uptime, enhance ...

When I send a text file via FTP from windows to unix, I am having conversion issues. 1. If I send the file via ascii, all of the tabs in windows are converting to 8 spaces in unix. 2. If I send the ...

One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

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 ...