Jim Hall
Two methods to load a data file into memory. Use mmap on Linux sysetms.
Linux
Be a power user by updating your system from the command line.
Here's how I update my system except for one problem library
1 My journey with markup systems began when I was an undergraduate physics student at university. Until...
Another great use of sed to make quick edits to a text file.
Here’s a neat command line trick to make changes to a text file.
Make backups of your personal data in case your laptop is lost, stolen, or damaged.
Here's how I used 'find' and 'xargs' to locate the articles I wrote and count the words.
My first experience and lessons learned in deploying Linux in the enterprise.
Process management can be an important part of system maintenance.
Use Bash to print 2-sided documents on a printer that can only print on one side.
Sometimes it's easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code
Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.
Write a gawk script to determine the most (and least) common letters in a set of words.
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
David Both
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 13 of...