One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).

Last week, after another round of relying on several File Explorer windows, I decided to try something different. I tried out ...

Earlier this year Microsoft shared its plans to integrate a full Linux kernel in Windows 10 — now it’s introducing Linux file access into the File Explorer. Users have been able to access Linux files ...

“Globbing” is an informal version of the term “filename expansion.” Using special patterns, you can identify filenames based ...

Linux 101: What is the mount command, and how do you use it? Your email has been sent Jack Wallen introduces new Linux users to the mount command and how to use it to mount an external drive to the ...

When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how a new file system should be coming to Macs (which it did, 11 years later). The ...

Windows 10 is getting improved integration between the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and File Explorer that allows you to directly access the folders of installed Linux distributions. Currently, ...