Shell basics. The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell). The commands we walk through below will work on any Unix-like system ...

After two and a half decades of working with Unix, I’ve seen a lot of change in my favorite OS and, at the same time, retained a number of favorite commands that continue to keep my job as a ...

Macworld.com – Today’s hint will probably only appeal to those of you learning to use the Unix side of OS X. A while back, I was trying to capture the output of the Unix command httpd -t ...

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and ...

Mac OS X even includes a few neat tricks of its own, over and above what other popular Unix and Unix-like operating systems manage. The whole notion of bundled Frameworks — used to store ...

The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you're migrating from Linux, you'll find many familiar commands work the way you expect.

Using UNIX with OS X: a second look. Using UNIX with OS X: ... what happens when the user is instructed at different times to boot from OS 9.1 and later to use UNIX commands in Terminal?

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server ...

In fact, from the command-line, there are only a few ways to tell that Mac OS X isn’t a normal FreeBSD release: Ask the OS itself. The Unix command “uname -s” will tell you the operating ...

Intro. In shell programming languages like UNIX or Linux the text files conclude with a new line operator "\n" also known as the line feed and its ASCII code is 0A.. A DOS Text file concludes a line ...