Dec 13, 2025 · 7 min read · Most people see Linux as an operating system. For me, it became a philosophy long before I realized that was happening. I didn’t start my journey chasing minimalism, freedom, or control. I started it because my old laptop couldn’t run Minecraft. But ...
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Oct 23, 2025 · 6 min read · Permissions in Unix are an integral part of the operating system. You can see the details of all files in the current directory by using options -l and -a combinedly with ls command: ls -al Every file has an owner (also referred to as the user), a g...
Join discussionJan 9, 2025 · 5 min read · UNIX is an operating system developed in the 1970s by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and many others at AT&T Bells Laboratories. It is the backbone of many modern operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Solaris, Kali Linux, Arch Linux, etc. It is an operat...
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Sep 26, 2024 · 2 min read · pwd (Print Working Directory): Displays your current directory (or folder) within the terminal. It's useful to know where you are within the file system. mkdir (Make Directory): Creates a new directory (or folder) in the specified location. ...
Join discussionSep 26, 2024 · 1 min read · touch: Creates an empty file if it doesn’t already exist or updates the last modified timestamp of an existing file. dir: Lists the contents of a directory, similar to the ls command. It's more common on Windows, but it also works in some Linux...
Join discussionMay 9, 2024 · 3 min read · Being a frontend developer in my first year of work, these Linux folders always used to confuse me. What are they, and why are they named like that? I recall setting up Nginx on my MacBook for some development tasks. I would always ask the DevOps guy...
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Jul 30, 2023 · 7 min read · Introduction Hey folks! 🌟 I recently had an awesome coding adventure where I took on the challenge of building my very own version of the 'wc' command-line tool in Python. You know, that trusty 'wc' command that's always been there for Unix users, h...
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Mar 4, 2023 · 2 min read · The descriptor can be thought of as a pointer that references the actual file data in memory. A file descriptor is a number that uniquely identifies an open file within a process. This means that if process-a is using file-a and in the file descrip...
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