Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

Hello<BR><BR>What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am considering going back to it but I need to figure ...

Recently I needed to create a script that processed two input files. By processed I mean that the script needed to get a line from one file, then get a line from the second file, and then do something ...

If you add additional read lines before the loop, you can often get additional filenames to print before you get the error. So it seemed like the pipe from the ...

A temporary reference (typically a number) assigned by the operating system to a file that an application has asked it to open. The handle is used throughout the session to access the file. In the ...

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...