Jim Hall
Here’s a neat command line trick to make changes to a text file.
Linux
Make backups of your personal data in case your laptop is lost, stolen, or damaged.
Here's how I used 'find' and 'xargs' to locate the articles I wrote and count the words.
My first experience and lessons learned in deploying Linux in the enterprise.
Process management can be an important part of system maintenance.
Use Bash to print 2-sided documents on a printer that can only print on one side.
Sometimes it's easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code
Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.
Write a gawk script to determine the most (and least) common letters in a set of words.
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
David Both
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 13 of...
1 When programs like vi first came along, terminals had a predefined size: usually 80 columns and...
The find command is a powerful and flexible tool to locate files under a path.
Let the kernel generate random numbers for you using 'getrandom.'
You can create your own programs that use a text user interface to control the screen.
Check spelling at the command line like old-school Unix with this cool script.