expand is a program that converts tab characters into groups of space characters, while maintaining correct alignment. It is available in Unix operating...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on January 1 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...
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The Unix wars were struggles between vendors to set a standard for the Unix operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both AT&T Corporation...
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Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix. Not all variants and...
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files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set of features. The keywords...
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The Unix command su, which stands for 'substitute user' (or historically 'superuser'), is used by a computer user to execute commands with the privileges...
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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...
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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob (Unix))
Labs' Unix. The command interpreters of the early versions of Unix (1st through 6th Editions, 1969–1975) relied on a separate program to expand wildcard...
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HP-UX (redirect from Hewlett Packard UniX)
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise; current versions...
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Unexpand (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
sequences of eight spaces into single tabs (printed as '\t'). List of Unix commands Expand (Unix) "unexpand - Compress spaces into tabs". www.ibm.com. Retrieved...
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words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance...
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The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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Finger (protocol) (redirect from Finger (Unix))
longer offered the service.[citation needed] It is implemented on Unix (like macOS), Unix-like systems (like Linux and FreeBSD), and current versions of...
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Fish (or friendly interactive shell- stylized in lowercase) is a Unix-like shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Fish is designed to be feature-rich...
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BSD UNIX." The book has been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Italian, German, Japanese and others. Later editions have expanded into...
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Free and open-source software portal unixODBC is an open-source project that implements the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API. The code is provided...
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mv is a Unix command that moves one or more files or directories from one place to another. If both filenames are on the same filesystem, this results...
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assembler instruction of the same name) is the name for a collection of Unix kernel routines or macros used to change the interrupt priority level. This...
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Xargs (redirect from Xargs (Unix))
xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input...
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ptx is a Unix utility, named after the permuted index algorithm which it uses to produce a search or concordance report in the Keyword in Context (KWIC)...
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Filter (software) (redirect from Filter (Unix))
programmable. Unix filters can also be used by Data scientists to get a quick overview about a file based dataset. awk cat comm compress cut expand fold grep...
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Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
via the operating system shell. Make is widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, even though many competing technologies and...
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Fortress (SDF, also known as freeshell.org) is a non-profit public access UNIX shell provider on the Internet. It has been in continual operation since...
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nm is a Unix command used to dump the symbol table and their attributes from a binary executable file (including libraries, compiled object modules, shared-object...
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The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when...
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In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname...
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In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, job control refers to control of jobs by a shell, especially interactively, where a "job" is a shell's representation...
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