Get started with Bash, Unix pipes, directory navigation, sudo, Nano, and other command-line essentials ...

IBM author Michael Stutz lists several ways UNIX users can benchmark and increase their productivity at the command line. One is to use the built in history tool to review what programs you use ...

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 ...

In the command below, for example, we are searching for files and ordering them by their time stamps by using a special option that allows us to organize our listings based on a year-month-day ...

If you're already using the Unix-like Cygwin, it's an easy hack to embed Cygwin's commands into your standard Windows comand prompt; if not, it might be worth checking out the free download.

Client The following example illustrates the statements that you specify in a UNIX client SAS session to access a server with the TCP/IP access method: options comamid=tcp; libname sasdata ...

In the age before tab-completion, having a long command, much less a hyphenated command, was something to avoid. That's why we call it "tar" not "tape-archive" and "cp" instead of "copy." I like to ...