Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

If you have any experience with the Linux command line, you’ve probably used a pipe to solve tasks by combining simple programs. It’s the UNIX way. A pipe connects one program’s output stream to ...

One of the new features in bash 4.0 is the coproc statement. The coproc statement allows you to create a co-process that is connected to the invoking shell via two pipes: one to send input to the ...

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.<BR><BR ...

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 ...