K THOMPSON has a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1965 and 1966 respectively). He has been a member of the Technical Staff in the Computing Science ...

My motivation for the project was that I needed certain functionality (that was available as a unix command) in what would have been a simle html/js-only app and I was forced to add a server side just ...

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 ...

Abstract: Because comparison in the standard UNIX™ operating system sort routine, /bin/sort, is interpretive, it is generally more time-consuming than the standard paradigm of comparing two integers.

I know it's a simple question but I can't figure it out!! When I run du -sh /directory/ it spits out all the respective directories sizes but how do I sort by KB, MB, and GB? When I pipe to a sort -rn ...