PIPE identifies the device-type as a UNIX pipe. ' UNIX-command ' is the name of a UNIX command, executable program, or shell script to which you want to route output or from which you want to read ...

Autocomplete—found everywhere from text messaging apps to IDEs—can seem like a fairly modern innovation, but it’s been present in various forms of Unix since the early 80s, if not earlier. Linux ...

Making use of previously entered commands can help you remember the location of files previously edited, canremove the need to re-enter long path names and can save you a lot of typing mistakes ...

As a Linux refugee, one of the features that makes Automator particularly compelling is that it allows me to integrate command-line operations, commands, and pipelines into my Automator workflows.

Mike's referring to an earlier column where we looked at how to use shell scripts to ascertain letter and word usage, using three books as source material: Dracula, A History of the United States and ...