If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make ...

The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

November 15, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Linux: If you want to easily type non-ASCII characters that likely aren't already on your keyboard (e.g. ™, µ, ...

Several of my passwords have extended ASCII characters in them (like Æ or µ). In Windows I typed them by holding ALT and keying in the 3 number code (ALT+198). But I'm diving into Ubuntu and ...

If you have ever copied or opened a Unix file in the Windows Notepad, you would have seen that the result is very ugly as all of the text appears as a mess on one line as Notepad does not recognize ...