When you work with the command line, you’ll notice that you cannot navigate “into” aliases created with the Finder when in Terminal. For example, you cannot issue a cd command into an alias, because ...

If there is one thing, we love without question about Windows 10, then it would without a doubt, be the Windows Shell. However, it’s not perfect, obviously, so how can we make it better for everyday ...

I had to emergency upgrade to Catalina yesterday to diagnose a problem reported by one of my users and have discovered that the filesystem changes have completely wrecked my workflow, simply because I ...

Have you heard it said that everything in Linux is a file? That is largely true, and that’s why the ability to manipulate files is crucial to mastering Linux Fu. One thing that makes a Linux ...

Symbolic links are a great way to organize your files, but they’re not perfect. Symlinks are pretty fragile, and it’s easy to end up with links that point to non-existent files. The find program can ...

I wasn't sure how to describe this problem, I've never come across it before. Twice now I've had a problem where, all of a sudden a lib file is missing. After that the system becomes unusable. For ...

If you come from the world of Windows, you undoubtedly understand the concept of a shortcut. In the Linux world, shortcuts do exist, but they're generally referred to as symbolic links, or symlinks.