Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...

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 ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

The default behavior of ping on Linux and other Unix-like systems is different from Windows. On Windows, the ping command ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Two weeks ago, in this column, we looked at some macros and DOS commands that can make your time at the DOS command prompt more like the Unix environment that most of us know and love. In this week’s ...

Memory is still one of the things that most determines how well your Unix servers will perform. Knowing what commands will tell you what you need to know and what their responses mean will help keep ...