The standard Unix command who displays a list of users who are currently logged into the computer. The who command is related to the command w, which...
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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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magazine Who? (novel), a 1958 novel by Algis Budrys W.H.O, an organisation in Marvel Comics who (Unix), a Unix command White House Office, an entity within the...
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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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df (abbreviation for disk free) is a standard Unix command used to display the amount of available disk space for file systems on which the invoking user...
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Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark...
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Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)...
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Research Unix are early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell...
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Ed (software) (redirect from Ed (UNIX))
letters, /ˌiːˈdiː/) is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed...
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USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents...
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utility for Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems and beyond, the primary purpose of which is to convert and copy files. On Unix, device...
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The computer tool patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file. The patch...
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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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nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...
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database of quotations. Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally...
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Berkeley r-commands (redirect from Rcp (Unix))
computer programs designed to enable users of one Unix system to log in or issue commands to another Unix computer via TCP/IP computer network. The r-commands...
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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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itself. The command is a one-command combination of several other Unix programs: who, uptime, and ps -a. Sample output (which may vary between systems):...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections. In a Unix environment, the parent process of a daemon is often, but not always, the...
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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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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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Unix System Laboratories (USL), sometimes written UNIX System Laboratories to follow relevant trademark guidelines of the time, was an American software...
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OpenServer (redirect from SCO UNIX)
Xinuos OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop (SCO ODT), is a closed source computer operating system developed by Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)...
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Grep (redirect from Grep (Unix))
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...
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At (command) (redirect from At (Unix command))
In computing, at is a command in Unix-like operating systems, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS used to schedule commands to be executed once, at a particular...
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Cron (redirect from Crontab (Unix command))
The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule...
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CUPS (redirect from Common Unix Printing System/Proposed baseline)
CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer...
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Sixth Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6, was the first version of the Unix operating system to see wide release outside Bell Labs. It...
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User identifier (redirect from User identifier (unix))
Unix-like operating systems identify a user by a value called a user identifier, often abbreviated to user ID or UID. The UID, along with the group identifier...
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