When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...

I have several folders with hundreds of nested sub-folders and tens of thousnnds of nested files even deeper inside. I want to get an estimated count of how many files are really there. What is the ...

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 ...

A series of commands ranging from simple to fairly complex will help you count lines, words or individual characters on the Linux command line. Linux includes some useful commands for counting when it ...

Every month or two, someone asks me how they should go about learning Unix. The short answer is always “use it” or maybe as much as “use it — a lot.” But the detailed answer includes a lot of steps ...