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 ...

The moment you chain 7 commands including awk or write a shell script with many subroutines is time to consider a "real" language like perl or python, or even c/c++/java. File operations are a bit ...

Apropos of nothing in particular, I remember back in the 80's Byte magazine having an article about using monode (single pole) semi-conductors to implement WOM (Write Only Memory). The 8bit I/O chips ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...

Sure, using the Linux command line is optional. But these are commands I rely on every day, and you can benefit from them, too.

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