Yesterday we pointed to a treatise entitled “Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits” by author/consultant Michael Stutz, which included a stern warning that any such self-improvement effort should most ...

Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. But if you want to call them back, you need to give them names. Unix pipes are wonderful because they keep you from having to write intermediate ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Being a parent is hard work. You need to prepare your child to operate in the world. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and how to make good choices are just the beginning. They also ought to know regular ...