UNIX for all, all for UNIX
This article attempts to simplify the UNIX or POSIX permissions. Let’s discuss permissions for a standard file. Let’s assume we have a file called permission_test.sh. The result of the ls -l permission_test.sh is:
-rw-r–r– 1 john staff 65 Oct 13 14:45 permission_test.sh
You have probably heard the term “mount-point” and wondered, or maybe not. You know it’s there, and files are in it, but you don’t know what it is? If this is the case then read this article…
I am assuming that you know what a file and/or a directory is, a directory is also called a folder. Well, a mount-point is simply the directory or file for which e device, normally a disk, either local or remote, is exposed to the system for interaction. Let’s take a common Linux system for example, this particular system is a CentOS, but it should not matter which system or UNIX type it is. Continue reading “The UNIX Mount Point”
As the first article, I decided to discuss the “Shebang“, also called many different ways: sha-bang, hashbang, pound-bang, or hash-pling.
In the UNIX world, there are scripts, in Linux for example, you will find a lot of “bash” scripts, when you edit one of these scripts there is a line at the top of the script, which looks something like:
#!/bin/bash