In the DevOps engineer’s toolkit, few commands are as revered—or as misunderstood—as awk and sed.
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Sometime in recent history, sci-fi nerds began an annual celebration of everything Star Wars on May the...
I love working with open source systems, especially those that give you compilers and other resources to...
The cd command is used on the Linux command line to change from one directory to another....
1 The function of any shell, whether Bash, KSH, CSH is to take commands entered on the...
Here's how I automated counting words from a series of articles.
Here’s a practical example of how I use the command line to tally how much I wrote...
Here's a helpful guide to batch files under FreeDOS.
As a SysAdmin, I need to manage the filesystems on the hosts in my home lab. There’s...
1 Whenever I change passwords on my systems, I need to try to think up ones that...
1 For some reason, the Fedora packagers are hiding a large number of package groups so that...
For many years, the de facto standard in file archives was Pkzip and Pkunzip, by Phil Katz....
Here are 7 ways I like to use the ed editor for daily tasks.
Here are 3 ways that I use aliases on FreeDOS:
You can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time...
2 Cat is a fairly simple tool designed to concatenate and write file(s) to your screen, which...