Log files on Unix systems can easily grow to hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines. Here's a simple way to pluck out every Nth line. Head and tail are great commands when you want to look ...

Sorting data in system log files certainly can be a chore, but only under certain circumstances. Whenever you have a text file of any kind with uniform delimiters, you can sort the data on any ...

November 28, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google You are not alone. In fact, I was pretty confused by file permissions for a long time, but it’s actually very ...

I stopped switching apps the day I learned to pipe commands.

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...