fold is a Unix command used for making a file with long lines more readable on a limited width computer terminal by performing a line wrap. Most Unix...
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Look up fold, -fold, föld, or folding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fold, folding or foldable may refer to: Fold (album), the debut release by Australian...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands are commonly implemented in Unix and Unix-like shells and many are available...
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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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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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Filter (software) (redirect from Filter (Unix))
programmable. Unix filters can also be used by Data scientists to get a quick overview about a file based dataset. awk cat comm compress cut expand fold grep head...
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UnxUtils (redirect from Unix Utils)
UnxUtils is a collection of utility programs that provide popular Unix-based shell commands – ported from GNU implementations as native Windows programs...
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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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fc is a standard program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that lists, edits and re-executes commands previously entered to an interactive shell...
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Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project aimed to help scientists develop new therapeutics for a variety of diseases by the means...
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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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sometimes said to fold case, from the idea of folding the character code table so that upper- and lowercase letters coincide. In filesystems in Unix-like systems...
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More (command) (redirect from More (Unix))
the contents of a text file one screen at a time. It is available on Unix and Unix-like systems, DOS, Digital Research FlexOS, IBM/Toshiba 4690 OS, IBM...
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The fmt command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems formats natural language text for humans to read. The command has been used...
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In computing, sort is a standard command line program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of...
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GNU Core Utilities (category Unix software)
coreutils is a collection of GNU software that implements many standard, Unix-based shell commands. The utilities generally provide POSIX compliant interface...
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SYSV checksum (redirect from Unix System V checksum)
was a commonly used, legacy checksum algorithm. It has been implemented in UNIX System V and is also available through the sum command line utility. This...
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Novell (redirect from Novell Unix Systems Group)
attempted to compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland...
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was an industry standards group set up by Motorola in 1988 to standardize Unix systems on their Motorola 88000 RISC CPU systems. At its peak, the spinoff...
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documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant...
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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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Vim (text editor) (category Unix text editors)
1988). "v15i037: Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga". Newsgroup: comp.sources.unix. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the original...
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Unix Expo was a conference and trade show that focused on the Unix operating system, and software based on Unix, in the information technology sector...
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Crypt (C) (section Relationship to Unix crypt utility)
functions for password validation and storage on Unix systems. There is an unrelated crypt utility in Unix, which is often confused with the C library function...
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FreeBSD (category Lightweight Unix-like systems)
FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed...
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Tacit programming (section Unix pipeline)
reputation of being unnecessarily obscure, hence the epithet "pointless style". Unix scripting uses the paradigm with pipes. Tacit programming can be illustrated...
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withdrawn recommendation for data signalling Version 6 Unix, a reference to the sixth edition of Research Unix from 1975 Dorsomedial area, (Area V6) of the visual...
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traditionally been adept at expressing one-liners. Shell interpreters such as Unix shells or Windows PowerShell allow for the construction of powerful one-liners...
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Windows are case insensitive. Most Unix-style INI interpretations forbid case folding altogether, although case folding for the section name or key is sometimes...
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O'Reilly Media (redirect from Unix In A Nutshell)
area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but the focus...
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