If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make ...

A Linux admin and open source developer has come up with a 48-character attack that crashes Linux servers, but experts argue the security implications of the bug. With just a mere 48 characters of ...

A sysadmin has developed 48 characters of code that he claims can crash most popular Linux distributions. Andrew Ayer, a Linux administrator and founder of SSLMate, explains his code works by crashing ...

November 15, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Linux: If you want to easily type non-ASCII characters that likely aren't already on your keyboard (e.g. ™, µ, ...

Typing characters that are not standard in English can be done quite easily in [Ubuntu] Linux without any modifications. In most situations, you can do this by using the Character Map utility included ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...