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Beyond the Basics: Advanced Text Processing with awk and sed wfh_work_home_laptop_work
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Beyond the Basics: Advanced Text Processing with awk and sed

Saikat Goswami May 8, 2026
In the DevOps engineer’s toolkit, few commands are as revered—or as misunderstood—as awk and sed.
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Quick Tip for umount

David Both January 3, 2026
Sometimes learning a new thing can be the result of my innate curiosity.
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Finding hidden package groups using DNF

David Both October 15, 2025
1 For some reason, the Fedora packagers are hiding a large number of package groups so that...
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Bulk Document Conversion Made Easy with LibreOffice

Don Watkins August 4, 2025
 I have many documents created with Microsoft Office for assignments written for graduate school courses years ago....
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Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

Why there’s no such thing as AI

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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