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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Four short links: 8 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 8, 2009

Linux Baby Rocker -- inventive use of a CD drive and the eject command ... (via Hacker News) I Like Unicorn Because It's Unix -- forceful rant about the need to rediscover Unix systems programming. Reminds me of the Varnish notes where the author explains that it works better because it uses the operating system instead of recreating it...

Recursively edit files with sed

By Kyle Dent
August 11, 2009

Well duh, that's exactly what sed is designed to do. And nowadays most implementations have the handy -i option that makes changes in place without explicitly using an interim file. Which means that I could reduce the work of typing in the Perl script to a single line at the command prompt...

The Command That Humbles Us All

By Chris Josephes
May 11, 2009

There is one Unix command that most have yet to master.

An Interview with Brian Kernighan: Breeding Little Languages

By Allen Noren
April 10, 2009

Following is an excerpt from Masterminds of Programming, by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden. (Adapted for the web). The Unix philosophy of many small tools, powerful in their combination, is evident in the AWK programming language. Its inventors (Al Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan) describe it as a language for syntax-driven pattern matching. Its straightforward syntax and clever selection of useful features make it easy to slice and dice text through one-liners without having to understand parsers and grammars and finite automata. Though its inspiration has spread to general-purpose languages such as Perl, any modern Unix box still has AWK installed and quietly, effectively, working away.

Guess the Book, Episode One: O'Reilly Media on the Streets of Sebastopol

By Kathryn Barrett
March 10, 2009

We're so used to the funny animals on our book covers that we don't give them a second thought, but what about the rest of the world? Especially the non-geek world? In this first episode of Guess the Book, we took to the streets of Sebastopol, CA—the world headquarters of O'Reilly Media—to find out what our neighbors might think. For this first foray, we chose Learning the vi Editor, with the "vi Guy" himself, to see if the townspeople could tell us what the book was about, simply by looking at the cover.

Love and UNIX: An Undying Affection

By Allen Noren
February 13, 2009

Youthful indiscretions, trysts, dalliances? Programmer and writer Thomas Scoville has had them with every OS from VMS, MVS, and CP/M. He even admits to a short-lived infatuation with Windows. But he's always returned to his one true love, UNIX.

Small Apps, Loosely-Joined Into Contextual Tasks

By chromatic
November 20, 2008

I spend too much time telling my computer how to do things when I should be able to tell it what I want to do. Perhaps it's time for declarative UIs to replace our procedural UIs.

One Way to Become an O'Reilly Author

By Mary Rotman
September 25, 2008

Interested in how to become an author for O'Reilly? One way is to make your opinions known on GetSatisfaction! Read more to see how author Rich Rosen both suggested and helped write the newest edition of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Also, enter to win a copy of the book!

PyMOTW: signal

By Doug Hellmann
August 17, 2008

Receive notification of asynchronous system events with the signal module.Module: signalPurpose: Handle asynchronous events.Python Version: 1.4 and laterDescription:Programming with Unix signal handlers is a non-trivial endeavor. This is an introduction, and does not include all of the details you may...

Text Processing at Maximum Speed and Power

By O'Reilly Media
August 14, 2008

Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition — The standard guide for vi since 1986, this book has been expanded to include detailed information on vim, the leading vi clone that includes extra features for both beginners and power users. You learn text editing basics and advanced tools for both editors, such as writing macros and scripts to extend the editor, power tools for programmers, multi-window editing — all in the easy-to-follow style that has made this book a classic. Browse the book.

Science on the Mac

By Daniel H. Steinberg
June 19, 2008

Why bring your *nix app to the Mac if you're a scientist?

UNIX Terminal Command Line Tips for Mac OS X Geeks

By Todd Ogasawara
April 28, 2008

Terminal, the Bash shell,and command line applications still have an important place in the Mac's GUI environment. Here are 10 Unix command line tips that even the most Mac GUI loving user will find useful for the Mac toolbox.

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