Links in Linux are like shortcuts: references to a file that don't duplicate it. A symbolic link references by filename but ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

Although I wasn't sure of that at the time, I did know that the Linux kernel hackers had been gobbling up new file formats and partition types faster than Carlie gives out free drink tickets at a ...

This article is excerpted from Chapter 7 of my book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, published by Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-142964-7).Chapters 1 through 6 cover the standard APIs for ...