If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple ...

This column is the first in a series of columns dedicated to one of my favorite subjects: troubleshooting. I'm a systems administrator during the day, and although I enjoy many aspects of my job, it's ...

Regardless of how sophisticated Unix has become, one of its ever-endearing qualities is the ease with which the command line can be used to select, manipulate and display data. Clever little languages ...

Thirty years ago, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki put out a message on a bulletin board, “i am doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big or professional..),” and ...