In this book excerpt from The Art of UNIX Programming, author Eric S. Raymond discusses the philosophy of Unix, what it got right, and what it got wrong.

Beware of any files with "test" in the filename: they are probably a quick test program that I wrote to check something, and may or may not work. NOTES ----- - Many systems do not have correct ...

I have started reading the book "Understanding Unix-Linux Programming". At the end of each chapter, the author provides some exercises and programming tasks. I will update some of them here, and at ...

Shell basics. The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell). The commands we walk through below will work on any Unix-like system ...

Eric S. Raymond is, with Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman, one of the three most influential thinkers/leaders in the open-source movement. In 1997, Eric published a technical paper called "The ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of ...

L'Unix programming contest if two programs work, how do we decide which is better? Written by Paul Murphy, Contributor. Contributor. Sept. 24, 2006 at 5:15 p.m. PT.

A flaw in widely used Unix software could allow attackers to gain control over computers running Solaris, HP-UX and several versions of Linux, the maker of the software warns.