The diff command has well over 60 options – suggesting that it’s a lot more complicated and versatile than you might have come to expect. Read more of Sandra Henry - Stocker 's Unix as a Second ...

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...

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 ...

The purpose of this repository is to showcase implementations of Unix commands and OS-related utilities developed as part of college practical assignments. These programs illustrate concepts like file ...

Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but deserves to see the bright light of posting. If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an ...