Sorting data in system log files certainly can be a chore, but only under certain circumstances. Whenever you have a text file of any kind with uniform delimiters, you can sort the data on any ...

Linux provides a lot of handy commands for manipulating text files. This post explains how to use a collection of them.

The first is necessary for people using a Linux system who feel they may be missing out on that most important of Windows tools. Yes, I'm talking about the Blue Screen of Death, lovingly crafted for ...

The Linux open source software community has been in an uproar since late June when Red Hat announced changes to the status of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the standard-bearer for Linux users in ...

By telling sort to order things numerically, it properly ignores "Card" but then sees the ordinal value of the card and sorts based on that, rather than on the actual card value itself. Even if we fix ...