While today’s Unix systems primarily store configuration files and system start-up files in /etc, the focus in those early days seems to have been on the characterization of these files as being ...

People who used UNIX or VMS in the '80s were already familiar with file system permissions, but PCs were just getting to that point. (In my opinion, the DOS attrib command doesn't count.) ...

4096 I/O block size (% o) You might recognize the three "seconds since the Unix Epoch" time stamps simply from their size. Yes, Unix is more than 1.25 billion seconds old.

While you’re unlikely to see many Unix systems with fragmentation reaching higher than 5%, it’s good to know what you can do to defragment a file system if and when you run into this situation.

IBM's UNIX System Services implements a directory-based file system that is very similar to the file systems used in UNIX. The SAS System under OS/390 enables you to read and write UNIX System ...

Id: 007990 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3 Description Addresses manipulating and maintaining files within the UNIX file system; creating and editing text files using the vi and ed editors; using pipes, ...

These files or directories typically contain configuration information or log files for the Unix system. The .bash_history file, for example, logs all the commands you enter on the command line.

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.