One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

There are some commands that turn out to be more useful than first meets the eye. In my opinion, xargs is one of those commands. It takes the standard input and uses it to build a command line. It's ...

I have a pretty simple shell script to delete old logs from a directory, there are about 64 thousand files in the directory. If I execute it by hand from the CLI it works, but invoked thru a crontab ...

Sometimes a new way of getting work done on the Linux command line can be both interesting and time-saving One of the really nice things about working on the Linux command line is that you can get a ...

What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. Some examples in the post of the “other ...