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Back when I started writing code, everything was done in the command line. You configured systems with the command line, wrote scripts in vi and emacs and ed, building your own library of commands ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

The hoc interpreter was created by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike and published in their 1984 book The UNIX Programming Environment. Their hoc project demonstrated the strategy of starting first with a ...

Is it UNIX or Linux? The post states UNIX, but the link shows a picture of 'Linux in a Nutshell' and links to the same. If it is UNIX, what edition and printing is it (latest is 3rd edition, reprinted ...