Every Linux system comes with a dictionary file: a huge list of words in your language. This "words" file is useful for spell-checking, but you can put it to use in many different ways. Learn more ...

BEGIN and END. Two unique patterns, BEGIN and END, execute commands before gawk starts processing the input and after it finishes processing the input.The gawk utility executes the actions associated ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher Prentice Hall, all rights ...

Command line is here to stay and it behooves a person getting into Linux to at the least get into the command line. The author states that this is not a sys admin book, but I'll argue this point, as I ...

When I'm using Linux, I know that all the information I need is only a few commands away. If you want to know it, Linux can give it to you -- from security, network, disk space, users, and ...