Halloween has come and gone. In fact, so has Thanksgiving. But some masks are always appropriate – not because we’re trying to inspire people to give us candy, but because it’s just too easy to end up ...

The Linux umask setting plays a big role in determining the permissions that are assigned to files that you create. But what’s behind this variable, and how do the numbers relate to settings like rwxr ...

One of my favorite utilities on the Linux command-line, and block storage is one of my favorite features on Linode's platform, so in this article I get to combine both of these together - because what ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...