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...
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(ATM) networks Reuters Messaging, an instant messenger application rm (Unix), a Unix command for the removal of files Faraday rotation measure, in astrophysics...
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they are "restored" when the new volume is unmounted. cp (Unix) ln (Unix) rm (Unix) List of Unix commands move (command) ren (command) Multics Commands mv(1) – FreeBSD...
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yes is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, which outputs an affirmative response, or a user-defined string of text, continuously until...
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Xargs (redirect from Xargs (Unix))
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...
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restricts srm to one file system, is not supported. rm (Unix): remove file in Unix. Data remanence shred (Unix) List of free and open-source software packages...
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Null device (redirect from Unix null device)
producer and jungle DJ. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Memory hole rm (Unix) Standard streams Unix philosophy Write-only memory Device file /dev/zero /dev/full...
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Cd (command) (redirect from Cd (MS-DOS / Unix Command))
batch files. The command has been implemented in operating systems such as Unix, DOS, IBM OS/2, MetaComCo TRIPOS, AmigaOS (where if a bare path is given...
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Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
via the operating system shell. Make is widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, even though many competing technologies and...
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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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SINIX (redirect from Reliant UNIX)
SINIX is a discontinued variant of the Unix operating system from Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme. SINIX supersedes SIRM OS and Pyramid Technology's...
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Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting)
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...
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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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In computing, cp is a command in various Unix and Unix-like operating systems for copying files and directories. The command has three principal modes...
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On Unix-like computer systems, seq is a utility for generating a sequence of numbers. seq first appeared on 8th edition Research Unix in 1985, and was...
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Named pipe (section In Unix)
for its behavior) is an extension to the traditional pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, and is one of the methods of inter-process communication...
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Dsw (command) (category Standard Unix programs)
a Unix command which enabled deletion of files with non-typeable characters. It was replaced by the same functionality implemented in rm, namely rm -i...
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The AT&T UNIX PC is a Unix desktop computer originally developed by Convergent Technologies (later acquired by Unisys), and marketed by AT&T Information...
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In Unix-like operating systems, unlink is a system call and a command line utility to delete files. The program directly interfaces the system call, which...
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Rmdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
is not empty in UNIX. The rm command will remove a directory and all its contents recursively. For example: $ rm -r foo/bar/baz $ rm -rf foo/bar/baz Normal...
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in Unix and Unix-like environments, an example of a command-line argument is: rm file.s file.s is a command-line argument which tells the program rm to...
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Setuid (category Unix file system technology)
The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) allow users to run an executable with the...
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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...
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Chroot (redirect from Chroot (Unix))
chroot is an operation on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process and its children...
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs (section Unix compatibility)
Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. Since 2000, Plan 9 has...
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Zilog Z8000 (redirect from Zilog Enhanced UNIX System)
S8000 computer came out with a version of Unix called ZEUS (Zilog Enhanced Unix System). ZEUS was a port of Unix Version 7 and included what were referred...
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GNU Hurd (category Unix variants)
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...
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GNU Core Utilities (category Unix software)
implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems. In September 2002, the GNU coreutils were...
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shred is a command on Unix-like operating systems that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that it is extremely difficult to recover them...
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the concept, and this term for it, was first used, but by 1971 the first Unix manual assumed its readers knew both: Another early reference is in a US...
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