No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that ...

AWK is a pattern-scanning and processing language that searches one or more files for records (usually lines) that match specified patterns. It processes lines by performing actions, such as writing ...

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Arguably, Microchip’s PIC microcontrollers do not get enough posts here. One of the drawbacks for some of us is that Linux support for PICs is not very well known. The information is out there, but no ...

Programming Linux: A Beginner's Guide is designed for newcomers to Linux programming. It explains how to program the BASH and TCSH shells and how to program Gnome and KDE GUI. In addition, readers ...

The chipmaker, one of the first mainstream companies to endorse Linux, announces programming tools that it says will make Linux programs run better on its chips. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

What superpowers? eBPF gives you the power to run programs in the Linux kernel without changing the kernel source code or adding additional modules. In effect, it acts as a lightweight (VM) inside the ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...

I have a C program, and want to run some other program ("ftp", if you must know). I also want to be able to feed commands (like "open <hostname>") into ftp's stdin. However, my attempts haven't been ...

There’s no doubt that demand for IT professionals with Linux skills is growing rapidly, and earlier this year I wrote about a brand-new certification program targeting newcomers to the open source ...