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Today • October 29
Socket
A socket is a software component that helps computer programs communicate over a network. The term "socket" evokes a physical socket that you plug a networking cable into and through which all data travels. Applications establish software networking ... Read More
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The Unix command grep comes from what phrase?
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Globally search a regular expression and print
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B
Guess, replace, exchange, and parse
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C
Go return extraneous phrases
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D
Generic response end processing
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