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    A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily...
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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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  • PATH is an environment variable on Unix-like operating systems, DOS, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, specifying a set of directories where executable programs...
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  • process has finished or terminated, though it remains running itself. In a Unix-like operating system any orphaned process will be immediately adopted by an...
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    based on Research Unix, with versions starting with 4.4 BSD and Net/2 instead becoming Unix-like. Furthermore, 8th Edition Research Unix and on-wards had...
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    network are examples of network services. In a strictly technical sense, a Unix-like system process is a daemon when its parent process terminates and the...
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    Unix-like systems is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the Single Unix...
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  • Superuser (redirect from Root (Unix))
    cases, the actual name of the account is not the determining factor; on Unix-like systems, for example, the user with a user identifier (UID) of zero is...
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    which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands can be found on Unix operating systems and most Unix-like operating systems. This is...
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    A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an...
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    In a computer file system, and primarily used in the Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the root directory is the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy...
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    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 by...
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  • such as adjusting the process's priority or killing it altogether. In Unix-like operating systems, new processes are created by the fork() system call...
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  • below) that almost all Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems descend.) Unix System III Unix System IV Unix System V Unix System V Releases 2.0, 3...
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  • PowerShell, and for various operating systems including both Windows and Unix-like systems. The directory stack underlies the functions of these two commands...
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  • Unix and other Unix-like systems such as Linux and OS X use CUPS (short for Common Unix Printing System), a modular printing system for Unix-like computer...
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  • The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original...
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  • of a directory listing with files the user did not directly create. In Unix-like operating systems, any file or folder that starts with a dot character...
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    down in order to show more or less of the main display. Almost all Unix and Unix-like systems use either the X Window System or the Wayland protocol to...
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  • OS/2; shareable image under OpenVMS; dynamic shared object, or DSO, under Unix-like systems) is a library intended for dynamic linking. Only a minimal amount...
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  • for site customization of the specifics of mail delivery to a user. On Unix-like systems, procmail and maildrop are the most popular MDAs. The Local Mail...
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  • When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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  • functional equivalent in the Macintosh operating system is called an alias. Unix-like systems have symbolic links which point to a target file, and often support...
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    use of capabilities of a remote display device. Under Linux and other Unix-like systems, a program easily accommodates to any of the three cases because...
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  • extension ICL, and font files, having the extensions FON and FOT. In most Unix-like systems, most of the machine code that makes up the dynamic linker is...
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  • Shell There are many variants of Unix shell: Bourne shell sh Almquist shell (ash) Debian Almquist shell (dash) Bash (Unix shell) bash KornShell ksh Z shell...
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  • Rmdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
    various operating systems. The command is available in Unix (e.g. macOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX), Unix-like (e.g. FreeBSD, Linux), DOS, Digital Research FlexOS...
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    one via telnet, ssh, dial-up, or over a direct serial connection. On Unix-like operating systems, it is common to have one or more terminal windows connected...
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  • work by installing their own drivers to access the files in kernel mode. Unix-like operating systems (including Linux and Apple's macOS) do not normally...
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  • Core dump (section Unix-like)
    text, printed, or analysed with specialised tools such as elfdump on Unix and Unix-like systems, objdump and kdump on Linux, IPCS (Interactive Problem Control...
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