What Files Are..?

Files are the collection of data onto a permanent storage structure. They are stored on a permanent storage media such as a computer hard drive, CD ROM drive, floppy disk drive or sometimes even a tape drive. Files take a certain amount of room to store. For example if you have two text files and one file has one sentence in it while the other file has 200 sentences in it, the file with 200 sentences will use more room on the storage...

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Linux is Multiuser, Multitasking Operating System

Many students who study Unix programming and shell scripting have a question - “How is Linux a mutlitasking operating system?”, as they work from a terminal which looks like DOS. Let us start with basics. A single-user operating system is a type of operating system that is developed and intended for use on a computer or similar machine that will only have a single user at any given time. This is the most common type of OS used on a home computer, as well as on computers in offices and other work environments. There...

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