GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

After two and a half decades of working with Unix, I’ve seen a lot of change in my favorite OS and, at the same time, retained a number of favorite commands that continue to keep my job as a Unix ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...

is the name of a UNIX command, executable program, or shell script to which you want to route output or from which you want to read input. The command(s) must be enclosed in either double or single ...

When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...

s3sh is an interactive S3 shell for exploring S3-compatible storage with Unix-like commands. Navigate S3 buckets and prefixes like directories, and seamlessly explore archive contents (tar, tar.gz, ...