Under UNIX, you can use the FILENAME statement to assign filerefs not only to external files and I/O devices, but also to a pipe. Pipes enable your SAS application to receive input from any UNIX ...

You can execute UNIX commands from your SAS session either asynchronously or synchronously. When you run a command as an asynchronous task, the command executes independently of all other tasks that ...

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Today’s hint will probably only appeal to those of you learning to use the Unix side of OS X. A while back, I was trying to capture the output of the Unix command httpd -t (which runs a syntax ...

In a highly condensed format, man pages provide a summary of a command's purpose, the options available, and the syntax which is used to issue the command.

This command can save you a lot of time tracking when you need to quickly determine how a file system or a particular file is being used, particularly when you cannot unmount a file system due to ...

There's more to the lsof command than you might imagine. Check out all the ways that it can be used to help you with your troubleshooting.

I know there is a program that allows me to use standard UNIX commands in the Win2k command prompt. I remember a program called cygnus or something but I can't find it using search engines. If ...

The command-line interface of your Mac lets you get into the Unix underpinning that makes Macs so powerful. Learn the top commands everyone should know to be a Mac power user.