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, ...

Define the first target of your Makefile (or if it is not the first target, set .DEFAULT_GOAL := help) as: To emphasize anchors that are "special" in some way, start their docs with ##! (this changes ...

If you receive this Windows Script Host access is disabled on this machine, Contact your administrator for details message box, on your Windows 11/10 computer, then this post may interest you. Today ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

The Power of AWK This is a collection of AWK scripts that I have built to help aid productivity on some projects. Although AWK is a powerful programming language, it is still limited to the abilities ...

Last time I talked about how to use AWK (or, more probably the GNU AWK known as GAWK) to process text files. You might be thinking: why did I care? Hardware hackers don’t need text files, right? Maybe ...

We aren’t doing the next generation of Linux and Unix admins any favors by forgetting init scripts and fundamental tools I happened across a post on Reddit by chance, asking about textfile ...