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I am currently using Samba to access remote Unix file systems from Windows. However, it is slow, and I presume insecure in the sense that file contents are transmitted unencrypted. I also wonder if...

This has no effect on missing process names.

I have a netstat command set up with awk to show which ports my box is listening on. The -p switch shows the PID/program name, too, which ordinarily would be very handy. However, several entries show...

You forgot an option.

"I do not have a mobile phone."

Ah, nice one. I see you are invoking a new shell to perform the command. It's good that doing so only involves a few extra key presses. I'll have to add "sh -c" to my local memory banks ;)

If one wants to create a file with some content, one might use:
echo 'my content' > new.conf
In the event that the target file requires elevated privileges, such as root access to write the file,...

How about because nobody actually uses anything but Google any more.

Well yes I had noticed that it resided in /usr/bin.

Well yes, I get the impression that people actually know what they're talking about here and are not in the habit of spreading misinformation.

Thanks a lot, I didn't know about the `stat` command, but I was sure something like this must exist. The operators of the official Ubuntu support channel told me that parsing `ls` was the only way,...

At the moment I'm just using `ls -o` (with `cut`), but `ls` is obviously giving me a lot more output than just the file owner.