Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics ...

She lives in the mountains in Virginia where, when not working with or writing about Unix, she's chasing the bears away from her bird feeders. Tune into her 2-Minute Linux video tutorials and take ...

I’m not totally surprised, as a lot of “tech sector” professionals work in levels of abstraction above the OS. But it pays to know these Unix basics considering there is often a Unix/Unix-like OS ...

I'm posting this here because OS X is my main unix system, though I also use some linux stuff (synology and a ubuntu virtual machine in my mac). I've dabbled with unix off and on for more than 20 ...

You might want to read the book "Think Unix" for a basic understanding of unix/linux type concepts. Further reading would include "Linux Administration Handbook" and "Understanding the Linux ...

For all UNIX systems (Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD—which is what FreeNAS uses), permissions work in generally the same way. Each file and folder has an owner and a group assigned to it, which ...

Now, if you want to really get the most out of Linux, or are considering a career as a Linux administrator, you'll need to learn considerably more… including the command line. N ...

Certainly, Linux permissions have some parts that are difficult to understand intuitively, such as '755' and '644'. Mr. Riis proceeded with the learning by referring to the following website.

UNIX, often regarded as more secure due to its controlled environment and vendor accountability, has a history of reliability in critical systems. Linux, with its open-source development model, ...