Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

At work we've run into the "problem" of our server needing to open more sockets than the per process file decriptor limit allows.<BR>Trying to remedy the solution led ...

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 ...