Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

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 particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...