Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling. But if you want to call them back, you need to give them names. Unix pipes are wonderful because they keep you from having to write intermediate ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

A pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism available on both Windows and Linux (and UNIX). Pipes originally appeared in the Bell Laboratories version of UNIX and have remained in all UNIXes and ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...