Linux systems support pipes that enable passing output from one command to another, but they also support 'named pipes,' which are quite different. Most people who spend time on the Linux command line ...

Let's get those errors fixed.

One of the things that I have always loved about Unix and then Linux is how it allows me to connect a series of commands together with pipes and get a lot of work done without a lot of effort. I can ...

Carrying over from yesterday’s examination of the Ubuntu command line, today’s installment of 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux is dedicated to ‘man’ and ‘grep’. These commands wield significant power, and ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

There is more to the shell, the terminal’s interpreter software, than commands composed of alphanumeric characters. In addition to those familiar programs, there is a whole host of processing tools ...