Are you someone who never met a Unix command you didn't like? OK, maybe not. But are there commands you just can't imagine living without? Let's look at some that have made a big difference on my ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

You can make your life a little easier and more productive by adding some Unix power to your Windows system. For a fairly extensive collection of Unix tools ...

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 beginner-friendly shell app for mastering Unix commands and shell scripting. Simplifying learning with an intuitive interface, it's the perfect tool to amplify your shell scripting skills!

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 ...

Last week’s column introduced NTP, the Network Time Protocol and the concept of highly accurate timekeeping. While numerous commands exist to help system administrators maintain fairly accurate time ...

歴史上初めて高水準言語で書かれたOSで、現代OSの始祖とも呼ばれる「UNIX」の50年以上にわたる歴史を時系列で示した「UNIX History」を、コンピュータの歴史を研究するÉric Lévénez氏が公開しています。A4用紙に印刷することも可能とのことで、実際にプリント ...