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Type
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Date
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| Speaking UNIX, Part 4: UNIX ownership and permissions provide for privacy and participation
Learn how to manipulate file permissions to protect your files, or share them with others.
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Articles | 17 Oct 2006 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part
3: Do everything right from the command line
Discover three essential UNIX(R) utilities that deliver the entire
Internet to your command line.
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Articles | 05 Sep 2006 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 9: Regular expressions
Virtually all non-trivial problems require you to filter good data from bad.
Discover the many UNIX(R) command line utilities that use regular expressions to
discern the relevant from the irrelevant.
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Articles | 17 Apr 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 7: Command-line locution
UNIX(R) has a dialect all its own, and its vocabulary of commands is quite large. But you don't have to learn everything all at once. Here, discover more command-line combinations and expand your mastery of the UNIX language.
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Articles | 06 Feb 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 1: Command the power of the command line
Learn the basics of the UNIX shell and discover how you can use the command line to combine the finite set of UNIX utilities into innumerable data transforms.
Also available in:
Russian
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Articles | 07 Mar 2006 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part
2: Working smarter, not harder
Learn how to leverage the many shortcuts that the UNIX(R) shell
provides. With a little practice, you'll work smarter, not harder.
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Articles | 08 Aug 2006 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part
13: Ten more command-line concoctions
This month, discover ten more secrets of the UNIX command-line
wizards.
Also available in:
Chinese
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Articles | 25 Sep 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 12: Do-it-yourself projects
If your UNIX(R) system lacks a tool you need, chances are you can find an
apt solution in the enormous inventory of software available online. This month,
learn how to build software from source code.
Also available in:
Russian
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Articles | 21 Aug 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 11: Ramble around the UNIX file system
Many directories in the UNIX(R) file system serve a special purpose, and
certain directories are named per long-standing convention. In this installment of
the "Speaking UNIX" series, discover where UNIX stores important files.
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Articles | 21 Jun 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 10: Customize your shell
You can customize the UNIX(R) shell to save time, to save typing, and to adapt to your
style of work. Shell startup files capture your preferences and recreate your shell
environment session after session, even machine to machine.
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Articles | 29 May 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 8: UNIX processes
On UNIX(R) systems, each system and end-user task is contained within a
process. The system creates new processes all the time, and processes die when a task
finishes or something unexpected happens. Here, learn how to control processes and
use a number of commands to peer into your system.
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Articles | 03 Apr 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 6: Automate, automate, automate!
Discover how shell scripts can mechanize virtually any personal or system task. Scripts can monitor, archive, update, report, upload, and download. Indeed, no job is too small or too great for a script. Here's an introduction.
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Articles | 03 Jan 2007 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 5: Data, data everywhere
Take a look at several techniques that illustrate how to move files among systems and how to keep such far-flung data in sync.
Also available in:
Russian
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Articles | 28 Nov 2006 |
| Speaking UNIX, Part 14: Manage Ruby and gems with RVM
Need to re-create another Ruby coder's development environment? Long to
experiment with the latest version of JRuby? Want to isolate your work to a
specific set of gems? You can do all that and more with the handy and clever
Ruby Version Manager.
Also available in:
Chinese
Portuguese
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Articles | 23 Jul 2012 |
| Speaking UNIX: 10 great tools for any UNIX system
The universe of UNIX tools changes constantly. Here are 10 tools -- some
you may have overlooked and some new -- to tinker with.
Also available in:
Chinese
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Articles | 12 May 2009 |
