Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

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

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux (and UNIX). Pipes originally ...