https://blog.thetextsmith.com/tags/stderr/ Recent content in Stderr on Under the Anvil Hugo en-us Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:29:01 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/the-unix-view-of-text-files-are-streams-not-pages/ Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:29:01 +0200 https://blog.thetextsmith.com/text-processing/the-unix-view-of-text-files-are-streams-not-pages/ Many people learn the Unix slogan “everything is a file.” That’s true, but I almost think the more profound slogan is: “Everything is a stream waiting to be read or written.” This last of our three-part series on working with streams demonstrates why it is appropriate to adopt the stream mentality rather than the page mentality when working with files.