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 ...

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...

alrite, so I'm trying to use the select function to tail a file to see when it has information ready to be input, but it needs to know the file descriptor of the ifstream to be able to work. I've ...

Despite all of the work that has been done with object-oriented systems and user interfaces, the Unix filesystem is the primary mechanism we use to locate and interact with our data. The hierarchical ...

OK, I am trying to convert a small bit of code from using old-style <fstream.h> headers to <fstream>. I am guessing that ofstream::fd() has been deprecated. In that case, what's the established method ...