Unix and, by extension, Linux, has a mantra to make everything possible look like a file. Files, of course, look like files. But also devices, network sockets, and even system information show up as ...

Tools like scp, sftp and rsync allow us to copy files easily and securely between these accounts. But, what if we don't want to copy the files to our local system before using them? Normally, this ...

Some days, it doesn't rain, it pours. That's the case with Linux today. Not one, but two serious security holes have recently been exposed. First, there was a systemd bug which could easily knock out ...

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.9 in the night from Sunday to Monday. With VDO, the latest incarnation of the kernel promises to save disk space and improve the performance of FUSE file systems. In ...

Have you heard it said that everything in Linux is a file? That is largely true, and that’s why the ability to manipulate files is crucial to mastering Linux Fu. One thing that makes a Linux ...

One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...