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You Can Use the Internet the Old-School Unixy Way With Shell Accounts

Shell accounts give access to a remote system via a shell, like early internet users in the '90s. A shell account offers a ...
Ars Technica

Linux/BSD Command Line 101: Using awk, sed, and grep in the Terminal

PowerShell is extremely powerful and once you get the hang of it, you can see how you can easily do things that using Unix shell is harder to do. Yeah, every row is an object and each column is ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Using indexed arrays in the Korn shell

One of the most convenient ways to manipulate information in scripts is to store it in an array. Arrays facilitate looping through lists of related values, keeping track of an ever changing number of ...
Linux Journal

Parallel shells with xargs: Utilize all your cpu cores on UNIX and Windows

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...