If you find your thrill delving into the networking side of Unix, you'll find that there are lots of commands to give you all the insights you might want. I will never forget my first ping. Working on ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

If you've used networking commands on Windows, such as ping and tracert, you might wonder if you can use them on Linux, whether on its own or part of WSL. Fortunately, you can. I remember sitting in a ...

If there’s one thing that every Unix systems administrator knows, it’s that there’s always more than one way to get something done. Some ways of solving a problem are more efficient than others. Other ...

Is there a command in Unix, but in OS X in particular, which will display the IPs of all the machines in a LAN? And if so, is there a GUI version of said program? If such program exists, what would ...