It is. I've converted a few machines here in just the last few months, even one where the HD was so shot full of holes only the recovery partition made it onto the replacement SSD and I wound up ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

AWK is a pattern-scanning and processing language that searches one or more files for records (usually lines) that match specified patterns. It processes lines by performing actions, such as writing ...

The Linux expand and unexpand commands can turn tabs into spaces and spaces into tabs, and the sed and awk commands can help. The Linux expand and unexpand commands sound like they can make files ...

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I've used command lines at the prompt, but I never, ever trust someone who makes a big show of typing them from memory. For every time they get it right, they screw something up in their pointless ...

Much to the chagrin of those who would like to malign the Linux operating system, it's actually quite easy to use. Thanks to modern GUI desktop environments and applications, anyone can jump into the ...