If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

When you print a file with the lp command, a symbolic link is created from the file to the /usr/spool directory. When you pipe output to the lp command, the output is copied under the /usr/spool ...

Under OpenVMS, you can now use the FILENAME statement to assign filerefs to a pipe. Pipes enable your SAS application to receive input from any OpenVMS command that ...

A core part of the philosophy of Unix-like operating systems is for tools to be specialised – each tool should do one job and do it well. That means we need a way to chain programs together to achieve ...

The 'clip' command has the functions of 'saving the output of other commands to the clipboard' and 'saving the contents of a specified file to the clipboard.' This time, we will actually use the ...