A reader recently asked me about me about finding text in context by posing this question: “I work on a solaris system where often I have to view outputs of certain log files. I use ‘grep’ to search ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

Does anyone know of a way to get Samba to automatically convert Unix text files to windows text files when transfering them to a Windows box?<P>Short of that, what would be a good way to work around ...

I have never had a problem with it displaying any .txt or richtext file correctly. Notepad can as well, as all wordpad does is add richtext support to notepad. I have text files dating back to the DOS ...

Sed is a non-interactive text editor that operates on piped input or text files. By providing it with instructions, you can make it modify and process text in files or streams. The most common use ...

Secure Copy is a UNIX standard used to transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in macOS, all via the Terminal window. Before personal computers, there were mainframe ...

Solaris and other SVR4 versions of Unix provide file sharing through NFS and the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The syntax of this particular file permits you to restrict file system sharing to a limited ...