Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors, Part 2

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...
Simon Fraser University

SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

SAS/ACCESS software uses SAS/ACCESS descriptor files to establish a connection between the SAS System and ADABAS. You create these files with the ACCESS procedure. There are two types of SAS/ACCESS ...
Simon Fraser University

ACCESS Procedure: Creating and Using SAS/ACCESS Descriptor Files

An access descriptor only describes a PC file's format and contents to the SAS System; that is, it is a master description file of the PC file for the SAS System. You cannot use an access descriptor ...
Linux Journal

Reading Multiple Files with Bash

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...
Computerworld

Unix Tip: Reading and Writing with File Descriptors

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...