computer software, strings is a program in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems that finds and prints the strings of printable characters...

String (C++), a class in the C++ Standard Library Strings (Unix), a Unix program for finding character strings in binary files C string handling, a header in...

simple library to match strings against Bourne Shell globs. Traditionally, globs do not match hidden files in the form of Unix dotfiles; to match them...

portal Dead code elimination Executable compression List of Unix commands Strings (Unix) Debug symbol Symbol table "Linux Strip Command". www.computerhope...

maps strings to strings while tr maps characters to characters. sed List of Unix commands GNU Core Utilities McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader:...

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...

Debian package version strings and similar tasks where numbers of variable length are embedded in strings. Collation List of Unix commands uniq shuf "Multics...

files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set of features. The keywords...

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...

whitespace (including indentation) in the text. Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell (sh), C shell (csh), tcsh (tcsh)...

The archiver, also known simply as ar, is a Unix utility that maintains groups of files as a single archive file. Today, ar is generally used only to create...

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...

effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later became available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9. Before...

In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, printf is a shell builtin (and utility program) that formats and outputs text like the same-named C function...

rc (for "run commands") is the command line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell...

underlying Unix base but also has Automator, which allows filters (known as "Actions") to be strung together to form a pipeline. In Unix and Unix-like operating...

(and escaped) string. For example, in Unix shells, single-quoted strings are raw, while double-quoted strings are interpolated. Placeholders are usually...

paste is a Unix command line utility which is used to join files horizontally (parallel merging) by outputting lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding...

rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) is a Unix-based tool that scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. It does this by comparing SHA-1 hashes of...

processing. The user, on Unix-type systems, sets the environment variable LC_MESSAGES, and the program will display strings in the selected language,...

called an alphabet. A primary purpose of strings is to store human-readable text, like words and sentences. Strings are used to communicate information from...

limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...

specify connection strings: on the command line (as in: sqlplus scott/tiger@connection_string ) via environment variables ($TWO_TASK in Unix-like environments;...

m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems, and is a component of the POSIX standard. The language was designed...

646 standard. Unix followed the Multics practice, and later Unix-like systems followed Unix. This created conflicts between Windows and Unix-like operating...

simplified by using raw strings, as in C#'s @"\\\\" or Python's r'\\\\', or regular expression literals, as in Perl's qr{\\\\}. Most Unix-like systems use a...

for /, the Unix path directory separator. In July 1992, the X/Open committee XoJIG was looking for a better encoding. Dave Prosser of Unix System Laboratories...

tool. Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The AWK language is a data-driven scripting language...

formalized the concept of a regular language. They came into common use with Unix text-processing utilities. Different syntaxes for writing regular expressions...

output of one command in as input to another. Unix also had the capability to save and re-run strings of commands as shell scripts which acted like custom...