After two and a half decades of working with Unix, I’ve seen a lot of change in my favorite OS and, at the same time, retained a number of favorite commands that continue to keep my job as a Unix ...

It’s easy to create aliases and some of them can save you a lot of time and trouble. Stored in one of your startup files (e.g., .profile), they can provide a modestly easier environment for your work.

Click to viewThat Mac you're viewing this web page on using a pretty graphical interface? That's a Unix-based system which can run the powerful and age old command line utilities of the most advanced ...