A temporary reference (typically a number) assigned by the operating system to a file that an application has asked it to open. The handle is used throughout the session to access the file. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...