There are many ways to move files between Unix and Windows. In my mind, they fall into three categories — secure copy (let’s not even think about ftp), shared drives, and file synchronization ...

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 ...

The ufs file systems used by Solaris and nearly all BSD variants of Unix attempt to keep fragmentation to a minimum by writing related data blocks within the same cylinder group.

While the average Unix user is generally satisfied by the date/time stamps that he sees when using the ls -l command, it is sometimes useful to remember that there are actually several time stamps ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect.

When I send a text file via FTP from windows to unix, I am having conversion issues. 1. If I send the file via ascii, all of the tabs in windows are converting to 8 spaces in unix.2. If I send the ...

For UNIX System Services files that are created by SAS, the file mode for new files is "-rw-rw-rw-"; however, this mode is modified by the current file-mode creation mask.

Notepad gets a major upgrade, now does Unix line endings No longer will Unix files show all their content smashed together in one long line.

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 ...

How to Encrypt a File in Unix. Businesses have proprietary information such as customer lists that need protection. The easiest way to protect only a few critical files is to encrypt and decrypt ...