If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

You can only operate superuser commands using the sudo command. These defaults are useful to you when looking for configuration files. It will help you dramatically when doing basic maintenance and ...

Our Linux cheat sheet includes some of the most commonly used commands along with brief explanations and examples of what the commands can do.

Shell basics The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell).

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Although DOS/Windows commands cover the basics, the command set was never as elaborate as Unix. Microsoft later added a more comprehensive command language for Windows (see PowerShell).

It pays to know these Unix basics considering there is often a Unix/Unix-like OS somewhere in the abstraction hierarchy. If that layer is unsound, the whole edifice risks collapse.

Hey guys, from the one time I used Netscape Navigator on a Unix station, there's now 80 something folders in my Netscape cache with 2-4 files each. I want to delete them.The only commands that I ...