Nov 202008
 

Working on a *nix system is no piece of cake. Especially when you are used to Graphic interface of ‘windows’. The world where mouse is the king.

Here is a list of most used / most discussed / most important *nix commands. Mastering this will surely get your confidence level high in the black background and white characters’ world !!

My experience says that for starters in UNiX / LiNuX , these commands are enough to get you in smoothly ! :) Continue reading »

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Oct 282008
 

AWK is a general purpose programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams, and was created at Bell Labs in the 1970s

I noticed that Erik Wendelin wrote an article “awk is a beautiful tool.” In this article he said that it was best to introduce Awk with practical examples. I totally agree with Erik.

Eric Pement’s Awk one-liner collection consists of five sections:

  • 1. File spacing,
  • 2. Numbering and calculations,
  • 3. Text conversion and substitution,
  • 4. Selective printing of certain lines,
  • 5. Selective deleting of certain lines.

The first part of the article will explain the first two sections: “File spacing” and “Numbering and calculations.” The second part will explain “Text conversion and substitution”, and the last part “Selective printing/deleting of certain lines.” Continue reading »

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Aug 102008
 

Welcome to the world of LAMP.

For non tech people, the definition:

L = > Linux ( Its an operating system )
A => Apache ( Its a web server )
M => MySQL ( Its a database system )
P => PHP {&perl &python} ( These are programming languages )

Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)

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