Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

In the lost+found directory files that I examined, the inode numbers are generally gone and only the scattered file names are easily retrieved. The directory dump shown below, for example, shows that ...

So I made a little booboo in a Perl script by forgetting to chomp the following output before sticking it in the middle of a file's name:<BR><BR>qx{date +"%Y.%m.%d ...