Many people who use PuTTY to make secure connections between Windows desktops and Unix servers are unaware that PuTTY also provides a tool for securely moving files between the two platforms. The ...

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 ...

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts. Using a series ...

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 ...

How to Use the Scp Command to Securely Send a File from Your Desktop to a Server Your email has been sent Learn how to use the scp command to transfer files securely with this step-by-step tutorial by ...

In the first installment of this series, we looked at the basics of using the Terminal to access Mac OS X’s Unix core. What’s next? Well, when you visit a new place, the first thing you need to learn ...

Did you know that you can manage all of your files and folders right from the command line, using applications like Gnome Terminal? Here are some of the basic commands that we use to manage ...