How do I use awk pattern scanning and processing language under bash scripts? Can you provide a few examples? Awk is an excellent tool for building UNIX/Linux shell scripts. AWK is a programming language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams, or using shell pipes. In other words you [...]

need to count one character at a time from input.txt. How do I read one character at a time under Linux / UNIX bash shell script? The read builtin can read one character at a time and syntax is as follows:   read -n 1 c echo $c   You can setup the while loop as [...]

Q. How do I connect to Microsoft SQL Server from command prompt? I just wanted to see list of tables and database. A. MS- SQL Server is relational database management system. Its primary query language is Transact-SQL, an implementation of the ANSI/ISO standard Structured Query Language (SQL) used by both Microsoft and Sybase. There is [...]

Google announced that it is adding a new parameter to the RESTful interface, userip for its AJAX APIs, due to abuse. With the new parameter, developers have the option of supplying the IP address of the end-user on whose behalf they are making the API request. Doing this helps Google determine what is legitimate server-sided traffic [...]

HTML5 promises to revolutionize the way you build web sites. Check out what fantastic new features are in store in the forthcoming Web standard. What a difference a decade makes. Or rather twelve years, when the last official version of HTML, HTML 4.0, became the official standard for web document markup. The 12 years since [...]

In terms of layout, many web sites are not designed for optimum search engine and directory visibility. People or companies seem so centered on their corporate or personal images, products, and services that they neglect to design their web sites with search engines and directories in mind.