Every now and then I come across a feature of some Linux command that works so well that I have trouble understanding how I managed without it for so long. The one that I most recently discovered is ...

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...

The Unix diff command is very handy, but it can do a lot more than just let you know if two files that you’re evaluating are the same or different. It can find and show you the differences and it can ...

The Disks app takes over some more challenging commands, such as fsck, mount, parted, chown, and dd. This app is a handy GUI that also prevents you from having to edit the fstab configuration file ...

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If you search the web you can find a number of references to programs/scripts that convert diff output to HTML. This is a bash version. The script expects "unified" diff output (diff -u) on its ...

With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep and diff Unix command line utilities to handle more ...