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.

One of the greatest changes that happens when someone becomes a textsmith is not learning a new command. It is learning a new way of thinking. This second of the three-part series on working with streams delves into the psychology of a textsmith.

This post is the first of the three-part series on stream editing: but what does it mean to work with streams? This is where understanding its key editor comes into play.

One of the habits that gradually changes a person’s shell scripting style is discovering that Bash can manipulate text on its own.

When everyone else sees a paragraph, AWK sees a database.