Pipes are a very powerful core feature of Linux. By chaining programs together, you can carry out complex tasks with a small set of tools. But piping isn’t always the best solution; when it’s not ...

I'm writing a little bash script to wrap grep for many, similar grep searches I do. One thing I'd like to automate is whether the output gets piped to less, or straight to stdout (depending on the ...

Don’t ask me why I read “Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits” by author/consultant Michael Stutz, but I did. And even not knowing the first thing about UNIX command lines, I can tell you that the article ...

is the name of a UNIX command, executable program, or shell script to which you want to route output or from which you want to read input. The command(s) must be enclosed in either double or single ...