Monthly Archives: January 2013

Episode 022 – sort

The sort command does just that, it sorts input.  Input can be a list of files, standard in, or files with standard in. The first example presents this simple file, shopping.txt,  containing a list of items: chicken fish sour cream … Continue reading

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Episode 021 – killall

The previous two shows have discussed different ways to kill a process using kill and pkill. This episode will cover a third command, killall. The killall command is used to send a signal to every process that is running the … Continue reading

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