The UNIX Way™ is to cobble together different, single-purpose programs to get the effect you want, for instance in a Bash script that you run by typing its name into the command line. But sometimes ...

In an earlier installment of Linux Fu, I mentioned how you can use inotifywait to efficiently watch for file system changes. The comments had a lot of alternative ways to do the same job, which is ...

Anyone who uses both Linux and Windows knows the problem. You need a couple of files that are on the Windows partition, but you forgot to copy them to a floppy or to the server before rebooting to ...