2009

Holiday season is just around the corner. Amazon is giving good discount on lot of electronic items. Here is the list of 10 best selling electronics items. I personally own these except couple of items, which I’ve hinted to my wife as a potential gift item she could buy for me. :). Pick your favorite [...]

Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute XQuery program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example? Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World XQuery program and execute XQuery program on Linux or Unix OS. 1. [...]

This article is part of the on-going Unix Sed Tips and Tricks series. In our previous sed articles we learned — sed printing, sed deletion, sed substitute , sed file write, sed multiple commands, sed multi-line operation, and sed manipulate file lines. In our first part of sed tutorial we learned that sed has two [...]

Kill command is use to send signal to a process or to kill a process. We typically use kill -SIGNAL PID, where you know the PID of the process. There are other ways to effectively kill a process — killing a process by name, killing a process by specifying part of the name, killing a [...]

As you already know, ping command is used to find out whether the peer host/gateway is reachable. If you are thinking ping is such a simple command and why do I need 15 examples, you should read the rest of the article. Ping command provides lot more options than what you might already know. Ping [...]

Every black friday I end-up spending significant amount (mostly on gadgets) to take advantage of the awesome deals. Some of those gadgets are so good, I feel that I would’ve bought it even at the original price without discount. Getting high quality product on a discount just makes the deal that much sweeter. I would [...]

As part of our on going UNIX sed tutorial series earlier we covered the printing, deletion, substitution, file write, file manipulation commands etc., with the single line in the pattern space. In this article let us review how to do the multi-line operation in Sed. Do you remember the Sed working methodology which we learned [...]