There are lots of tasks that can be handled quickly by using the command line. In his recent postings here at ProfHacker on the topic, Lincoln has covered the basics. Now it is just a matter of making ...

Learn the fundamentals of sorting and de-duplicating text on the command line. If you've been using the command line for a long time, it's easy to take the commands you use every day for granted. But, ...

Sorting data in system log files certainly can be a chore, but only under certain circumstances. Whenever you have a text file of any kind with uniform delimiters, you can sort the data on any ...

Linux commands can provide details on files and show options for customizing file listings, but can also reach as deeply into a file system as you care to look. There are many ways to list files and ...

The first time that familiar pause caught my attention was while I was using the sort command to run through a few hundred megabytes of log text. Until now, I had always ignored it. It comes up when I ...

I'll see a sorted version of the file based on the beginning of each line, which in this case will be the computer name. The original file remains untouched. You can tell the Sort command to create a ...