The ‘0~1000’ argument tells it to select each 1,000th line from the target file. The 0 tells it to start with line 0 which, of course, doesn’t exist, and the 1000 tells it how many lines to skip over ...
The title of this week’s column may sound like something of an oxymoron. At least a newcomer to the art of Unix might easily believe that a fatal error means that ...
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 ...