That's too bad. The command line is tremendously powerful, and the underlying metaphor of commands being strung together in pipes to create custom command sequences means that Linux actually offers ...

The first line writes "hello world" to the file "output", the second reads it back and writes it to standard output (normally the terminal). A "here" document is essentially a temporary, nameless file ...

One reason a lot of people get started with the Linux terminal is to use ImageMagick and FFmpeg. These are popular tools for converting image and video files. One reason you might want to do this is ...

I can run the time command easily enough, but the normal redirection symbols in Bash don't seem to have any effect on time's ability to output to STDOUT.Something like this: time command &> /dev ...

I have a C program, and want to run some other program ("ftp", if you must know). I also want to be able to feed commands (like "open ") into ftp's stdin. However, my attempts haven't been ...