One of the files that the average Unix sysadmin rarely looks at, almost never changes and yet depends on every time he or she reboots a system is the /etc/inittab file. This modest little file ...

Guys a quick question : How do we find all the process which is using a particular file in Unix or Linux ? To answer your quick question you use the find command with the uid or the gid option if the ...

At its simplest, the basename command will strip the directory structure off the front of a file reference. /usr/bin/passwd becomes passwd. /usr/local/bin/myscript ...