Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 01/25/2007 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

Sometimes processes can take time to complete, thus tying up your console session. What if you want to run multiple processes in the background on the same shell session? With the built-in job control, you can. There are three main conditions a job can be in: Running, Stopped/Suspended, or Terminated. To control them, we'll use the fg and bg commands.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/08/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

A useful administrative tool is to see what users are logged onto the server. Another tool not only shows who is logged on, but it also shows what programs they are running.

Written by configure and last updated on 11/03/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

Right then, vi. "Oh no! vi! That's command based, can't use that!" Oh come on, it's not that difficult! Really... First, I shall explain a little about vi. vi (now mostly vim) is one of the oldest text editors for *nix. It can be found on many systems, both UNIX and Linux, and is usually the default editor. vim (VI iMproved) is beginning to take over from the older vi, but essentially, they function the same way.

Written by configure and last updated on 11/03/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

In this short tutorial I shall explain the basics of BASH prompt customization. I won't cover the more advanced aspects, and probably won't cover colours, but just enough to make your prompt display the information that you want to know.

Written by Trey Hastings and last updated on 02/15/2004 - [ macosx ]

This tutorial hopes to simply identify some basic stuff for new users of Mac OS X. I recently got a mac, having no previous experience with one. My personal opinion is that it would have been nice to have a guide with certain tips to help get started, even though the general help application is fairly decent. These are completely random tips, but if you're new and have no idea what you're doing, this may help. Some are fairly obvious, but it never hurts to have things documented.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/14/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

You've downloaded them, you've extracted them, you've liked them. But how do you create them? This guide will show you how to quickly and easily create a compressed archive in the form of *.tar.gz and *.tar.bz2.