Allow me to get into more details, since I'm one of the magazine assistant editors.
What we are looking for is one (or more) articles on the usage of the common file text utility commands, such as
grep(1),
sed(1),
awk(1) and friends, as well as other utilities that come along like
find(1),
locate(1) and others.
Now, while the main focus should be on text processing from the command line, the subject can be expanded to some tutorials and howtos regarding the pipelining of commands and the
scripting, that is constructing complex commands using basic bricks. For instance, it could be interesting to have a tutorial on how to build a medium-to-complex script in different shell environments (e.g.,
sh,
ksh,
zsh) so to take advantage of every specific shell features.
With regard to the article itself, usually the deadline for presenting an article is around the 25 of each month to get a chance to be published on the next-month issue, but of course it is possible to get it published on a more relaxed schedule. Consider that each paper has to be reviewed by the magazine betatesters, and suggested improvements have to be applied before it can be included into a specific issue.
If anyone is interested in contributing to the magazine, please contact me via private message or contact
BSDMag_org and we will provide more detailed information.