What UNIX-like operation system is most hackable? By hack I mean I would like to modify the core systems in the operating system including creating new drivers, filesystems, protocols and change …

What would be the equivalent to AnyDVD on Unix (linux,*bsd etc)?

Whenever I select something in visual mode in Vim it automatically gets copied. It causes a problem since I have alread something in clipboard to paste in that selected text. Is there any way to …

I have to sort some lines of cyrillic characters and I want to use the sort utility (on MAC OS X 10.6). The problem is that result is incorrect. I take the text into clipboard, then run pbpaste | sort …

Ok, I have a bunch of files starting with a dash, -. Which is not so good... and I want to rename them. In my particular case I would just like to put a character in front of them. I found the …

I have defined a function in vim to properly indent folds. Ie so they look like this: Unfolded this is text also text indented text indented text not indented text folded with default …

What would be the best way to get the full-blown Unix/Linux bash inside Windows? I don't mean the Virtual Machine, but rather only the terminal with mounted NTFS drives. This way I could use the …

For example there is a long path that I cd to very often. How do I store the path in a variable so that I can use it everytime? For example: I wan to be able to do this cd $path instead of cd …

I'm interested in experimenting with replacing our dependency on MKS with MS' Sevices for Unix toolset. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with deploying SFU on a shared drive? We like to, …

I'm a bit confused about the installation of standard Unix packages on Mac OS X. For example, I have /usr/bin/svn, which is SVN v.1.4.4, but FinkCommander says svn is not installed. The same holds for …

I have a project directory that contains source code and subdirectories of source code. I want to use the Unix program find to search recursively for the names of files of certain extensions. The …

What happens if I have this in my bashrc: alias ls="ls -l" alias ls="ls -a" when I type ls they will both match. Is the last one kept or both?

I am somewhat confused what the differences between a softlink, and a hardlink are (on unix). It seems like a softlink is the same as a shortcut in windows or an alias on Mac OS X. (Can someone …

Hey! I'm a little new on searching via bash, so feel free to give me suggestions on the methods to use instead of this, which I'll never use again :) I'm searching for occurances of a string, …

I have a task that needs to be performed on my project schedule (3 weeks). I'm able to set up cron to do this every week, or (for example) on the 3rd week of every month - but can't find a way to do …