A clever awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string.

Concatenating strings In general, the only time that you’d want to concatenate strings on Linux is when one string is already defined and you want to add more to it.

While Linux might not enjoy a huge desktop market at present, there are some of you who think that's about to change. Especially the gamerz among you.

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits of bash are really li… ...

I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy ...

Buried in the software that connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualization program was the following code string: 0xB16B00B5 In plain English, that stands for "BIG BOOBS".

There are still some dangling legal strings that need to be trimmed, and those won't happen for at least a few weeks -- barring any more appeals, of course, by SCO Group. One of them involves ...

Conclusion Linux provides powerful command-line tools, such as grep and find, to assist you in searching and finding files based on specific text strings. These tools enable you to quickly locate ...

Normalizing Filenames for the Web My strategy is going to be easy: pull the string apart into individual characters, analyze each character to identify if it's an alphanumeric, and if it's not, ...