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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...

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 ...