The /proc file system brings the processes on your Unix systems into view in some very useful ways, but only if you take the time to cd over to /proc and see all it can tell you.

The /proc file system first made its way into some Unix operating systems (such as Solaris) in the mid-1990s, promising to give users more and easier access into the kernel and to running ...

As an example, the file /proc/version contains revision information relevant to the running kernel image. Proc files are either read-only or read-write. The /proc/version file above is an example of a ...

After a bit of pondering I came up with two solutions: the stat command and using information from the proc file system. The first solution uses the stat command to determine what type of file is ...

Some methods of sending SAS procedure output or the SAS log to a file include using the Save As dialog box, invoked either from the File menu, the pop-up menu for the window that you want to save, or ...