Ars Technica

wget - Bad file descriptor (failed:)

not sure if i'm doing this correctly, but i'm trying to get the jpg files from a site with wget using the recursive and glob on options.<BR><BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode ...
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 ...
Ars Technica

FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

Hello<BR><BR>What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am considering going back to it but I need to figure ...
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 ...
Linux Journal

Kernel Korner - Intro to inotify

John McCutchan and I had been working on inotify for about a year when it was finally merged into Linus' kernel tree and released with kernel version 2.6.13. Although a long struggle, the effort ...