There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization.

For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools — including most of the essentials like less, tail, awk and grep, mv, dd, bzip2 and bunzip2 — on your Windows box, install cygwin.

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect.

Services for Unix Version 3.0 will add to Windows support for Network File System, a Unix file-sharing protocol. Such support enables Windows clients and servers to access files and data stored on ...

Getting help with a Unix application or process can be more difficult than in a Windows environment. Unix documentation can be long-winded, difficult to read or even non-existent, and the system's ...

In Windows, users cannot have two files in the same folder with the exact same name. In Microsoft Windows, program and system files are almost always stored in the C: drive, while program and system ...

Industry observers agree, arguing Windows is still perceived to be more suitable for hosting low-end application environments and for handling typical file-and-print responsibilities.

Convert a Windows file to a Unix file using Perl: perl -p -e 's/\r$//' < windows.txt > unix.txt This command removes the carriage return characters from the Windows file and saves it in Unix format.