The character of the far left tells you what kind of file this item is. If it is a dash then that means it is a normal file. If it is a that that means it is a directory (folder). That's the two important ones. There are several other things it co...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all TGS Readers. To wrap this year, I've collected 50 UNIX / Linux sysadmin related tutorials that we've posted so far.

Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at a pretty well maxed out DEC PDP11 computer and two Teletype model 33 terminals. See Unix's timeline at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix See Unix's story at Bell Labs: www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/ See Unix's evoluti...

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Explains how to install and run a steam locomotive across the screen if you type sl instead of ls under UNIX / Linux like operating systems.