The find command is not just useful for locating files, but also for doing things with the files once it finds them. You can find files based on numerous criteria — their names, their owners, their ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

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. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

Making use of previously entered commands can help you remember the location of files previously edited, canremove the need to re-enter long path names and can save you a lot of typing mistakes.

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

In a program I am writing (unix/linux system), I would like to perform some commands such as "cd", "find", etc.. How can I do this? Is this something I would use exec for? Or is there an easier way to ...