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 (variable) (section Unix and Unix-like)
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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Orphan process (section Unix-like)
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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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
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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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
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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Root directory (redirect from Super root (Unix))
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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Process identifier (section Unix-like)
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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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
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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Pushd and popd (section Unix-like)
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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Printer driver (section Unix and Unix-like)
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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Shared library (section Unix-like systems)
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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Message delivery agent (section Unix-like)
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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Terminal emulator (section Unix-like systems)
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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File locking (section In Unix-like systems)
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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