Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

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If you’re new to the world of the Linux command line, then you know how eye-openingly powerful it can be. In fact, the sky’s the limit with what you can do from the Command Line interface. But, ...

When you print a file with the lp command, a symbolic link is created from the file to the /usr/spool directory. When you pipe output to the lp command, the output is copied under the /usr/spool ...

Under OpenVMS, you can now use the FILENAME statement to assign filerefs to a pipe. Pipes enable your SAS application to receive input from any OpenVMS command that ...

Windows: Pipy is an application launcher that combines the best elements of apps like Launchy with command-line features from Unix-based systems that you may be missing on your Windows PC. Pipy does ...