Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it’s still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There’s a lot more to ...

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools I happened across a post on Reddit by chance, asking about textfile ...

The “l” at the beginning identifies /usr/bin/awk as a symbolic link. NOTE: Without the commas, the result would be “onetwothree”. Note that gawk allows you to ...

Can a curious Windows user find a Linux version without command lines, because I can’t find one that has 100% GUI. Is it because of techno snobbery, as in, you’re only allowed in if you learn command ...

Many years ago, probably close to 20, a regular point was made on the comp Usenet newsgroups about using the minimum tool to get the job done. That is, someone would ask for a quick and dirty way to ...

Edit: Could you explain how you came up with that? Now I want to separate the bytes with a space and have them each start with 0x In the find portion you put the text that you want to find. In this ...