Do you wonder why you can't edit, execute, or even open some UNIX files and directories? It's all in the permissions. Find out how you read these permissions and make them work for you.

Dear Lifehacker, I’ve followed your guide to building a home server with FreeNAS , but I’m not sure what to do with the permissions on my files. Can ...

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names — like /etc, /var and /usr/local — came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the ...

Thinkstock Samba Another option for moving files between Unix and Windows systems it to make a drive or folder available by “sharing” it. Both Unix and Windows have commands for this. To share ...

Espnix provides a lightweight Unix-like environment for microcontrollers, offering familiar shell commands, file system operations, and process management within the constraints of embedded hardware.

BeyondTrust Adds File Integrity Monitoring for Unix and Linux Systems Least-privilege solution improves security by tamper-proofing critical binaries.

Unix systems provide numerous ways to compare files. The most common way to verify that you have received or downloaded the proper file is to compute a checksum and compare it against one computed ...

This repository contains a C++ project that simulates a simple UNIX-like filesystem. The project is part of an OOP345 workshop exercise and demonstrates the use of polymorphism, STL containers, ...

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here's a simple way to pluck out every Nth line.