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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...