line or with one of the spawn functions (see below). Many Unix shells also offer a builtin exec command that replaces the shell process with the specified...

text files on current Unix-like systems. However, UTF-8 files may begin with the optional byte order mark (BOM); if the "exec" function specifically...

Fork–exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. fork() is the name of the system call that the parent...

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...

In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...

Unix Specification, Environment Variables Open Group Unix Specification, execve() function Dash exec.c as an example of an implementation of a PATH-string...

The script command is a Unix utility that records a terminal session. It dates back to the 1979 3.0 Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). A script session...

A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...

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...

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...

attempted to compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland...

system with directories (separated by ">") in the mid-1960s. Around 1970, Unix introduced the slash character ("/") as its directory separator. In 1981...

In computing, time is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to determine the duration of execution of a particular command. time(1)...

image after exec, before searching in any other directories. $LIBPATH or $SHLIB_PATH Alternatives to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH typically used on older Unix versions...

v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...

DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM...

accepted among different vendors of Unix systems. In 1999, it was chosen as the standard binary file format for Unix and Unix-like systems on x86 processors...

kexec (kernel execute), analogous to the Unix/Linux kernel call exec, is a mechanism of the Linux kernel that allows booting of a new kernel from the...

branch the Unix exec() service over the executable image eight byte header and start the program. Since the Sixth and Seventh Editions of Unix employed...

command has the same name as another common UNIX utility, the restricted shell, which first appeared in PWB/UNIX; in System V Release 4, the restricted shell...

text-processing, generally available in Unix-like operating systems Bash, interpreted language for scripting Unix and Unix-like operating systems Groovy, Java-like...

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...

different. USS: Unix system services, a complete Unix environment running as part of the MVS base control program, and allowing Unix files, scripts, tasks...

manager itself was bootstrapped, and executed. In Unix (and in Unix-like operating systems), the exec() system call is used to perform chain loading. The...

Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License...

systems table) is a system file commonly found in the directory /etc on Unix and Unix-like computer systems. In Linux, it is part of the util-linux package...

brk and sbrk are basic memory management system calls used in Unix and Unix-like operating systems to control the amount of memory allocated to the heap...

special type such as code (as in Python). The analog for a statement is exec, which executes a string (or code in other format) as if it were a statement;...

values found within the POSIX specification. Traditionally, the first page of Unix system manuals, named intro(2), lists all errno.h macros, but this is not...

Simulation) being a major one. XEDIT also supported EXEC 2, the predecessor of Rexx. When PCs and Unix computers began to supplant IBM 3270 terminals, some...