If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

cfg2html is a small utility for collecting the necessary system configuration files and system setup into an ASCII file and an HTML file. Easy to use and very useful in disaster recovery situations.

a2ps-4.15.7: GNU a2ps converts almost anything to a PostScript file, ready for printing. It accomplishes this by being able to delegate files to external handlers, such as Groff and Gzip. It handles ...

Looking to try modern Rust-based replacements for classic Unix tools on your Ubuntu system? Say hello to oxidizr, a lightweight command-line utility designed to help you experiment with safer, ...

The Mac Terminal app is your window into macOS's UNIX underpinnings. Here's how to customize the appearance of Terminal in macOS. The UNIX operating system standard goes back decades. To 1970 in fact, ...

Ubuntu 24.04.x LTS (Noble Numbat) - runs on all of CSIL workstations, and all MPCS workstations. - exception: workstations in SRYE 3024 and SRYE 4024 run Windows only since Fall 2025. Please read ...

So here's a really in depth, good comparison of fundamentals of NT (kernel ) vs Unix designs. Although it's not the modern NT, but earlier, it's still generally valid for design comparisons. Over the ...

PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language developed by Microsoft. It allows users to navigate, create, delete, and manipulate directories using various commands. You can check if a ...

A PowerShell “for” loop is a core scripting tool that lets you execute a block of code multiple times. Whether you’re automating system tasks or processing data, understanding how to write a “for” ...

Various Unix-like operating system implementations like Linux and pretty much anything that has the GNU suite includes the bc basic calculator language. Its syntax is very similar to the C programming ...