Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T... 53 KB (5,614 words) - 17:12, 28 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (662 words) - 16:45, 1 January 2024 |
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... 8 KB (997 words) - 06:52, 6 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,340 words) - 04:47, 3 February 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,396 words) - 17:21, 28 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,733 words) - 12:36, 20 October 2023 |
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... 23 KB (168 words) - 02:35, 18 April 2024 |
When a text file with a shebang is used as if it is an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the... 25 KB (3,219 words) - 22:33, 10 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (513 words) - 03:00, 21 March 2024 |
library or libraries to provide. Not all systems support dynamic loading. Unix-like operating systems such as macOS, Linux, and Solaris provide dynamic loading... 20 KB (2,091 words) - 11:01, 26 April 2024 |
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... 6 KB (526 words) - 20:01, 17 February 2024 |
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 IVPhysics Unix System V Unix System V Releases 2... 72 KB (8,243 words) - 00:10, 17 April 2024 |
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... 39 KB (2,345 words) - 21:03, 27 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,941 words) - 00:11, 20 November 2023 |
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... 6 KB (643 words) - 03:04, 8 November 2023 |
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... 12 KB (1,611 words) - 06:48, 25 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (705 words) - 07:17, 27 March 2023 |
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... 8 KB (962 words) - 08:27, 25 April 2024 |
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... 27 KB (3,307 words) - 21:09, 23 March 2024 |
Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations. Their aim is to improve... 6 KB (510 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,853 words) - 12:42, 4 April 2024 |
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... 22 KB (3,162 words) - 00:57, 6 April 2024 |
Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting) like 4NT—article is at cmd.exe), and mainframe operating systems are associated with a number of terms. Shells commonly present in Unix and Unix-like... 23 KB (2,981 words) - 15:30, 29 September 2023 |
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... 7 KB (669 words) - 06:38, 2 February 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,891 words) - 22:33, 14 February 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,687 words) - 22:39, 29 April 2024 |