Shell builtins are commands that are loaded into memory when a shell — such as bash, sh, or zsh — is invoked. The reason for this is that keeping these commands in memory helps ensure that these ...

What happens when you run a Linux command? This simple act can appear straightforward, but many different things can actually occur, depending on whether you’re running an executable program, a shell ...

Out of curiosity, I pulled out an old piece of merge-sort code I'd written a few years ago and compiled it using both Dev-C++ and gcc 2.95.3. Dev-C++ is a Win32 port of gcc 2.95.3, for anyone who wasn ...