head is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to display the beginning of a text file or piped data. The command syntax is: head [options]...
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tail is a program available on Unix, Unix-like systems, FreeDOS and MSX-DOS used to display the tail end of a text file or piped data. The version of tail...
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GNU (redirect from GNU's Not Unix)
for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. Stallman chose...
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American organic hair product head (Unix), a UNIX command <head>, an HTML document structure element HEAD, an HTTP request method Head, a reference to a commit...
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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 are implemented in many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems...
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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 killed...
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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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The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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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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split is a utility on Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems most commonly used to split a computer file into two or more smaller files. The split...
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In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts...
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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...
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Unix-like utilities. The od command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system. Normally a dump of an executable file is very long. The head program...
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database of quotations. Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune, originally...
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Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie...
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Filter (software) (redirect from Filter (Unix))
underlying Unix base but also has Automator, which allows filters (known as "Actions") to be strung together to form a pipeline. In Unix and Unix-like operating...
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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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Sed (redirect from Ssed (Unix))
sed ("stream editor") is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language. It was developed from 1973 to 1974...
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646 standard. Unix followed the Multics practice, and later Unix-like systems followed Unix. This created conflicts between Windows and Unix-like operating...
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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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and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix. It was applied to re-implementing the kernel of the Unix operating system. During the 1980s, C gradually...
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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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Santa Cruz Operation (category Unix history)
selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...
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Vyssotsky. University of Virginia Ned Pierce (January 1985). "Putting Unix in Perspective". Unix Review: 59. Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. List of Significant...
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on Earth, are only known to be produced by life. April 21 – Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church since 2013, dies at the age of 88. World leaders pay...
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Douglas McIlroy (category Unix people)
Laboratories in 1958; from 1965 to 1986 was head of its Computing Techniques Research Department (the birthplace of the Unix operating system), and thereafter was...
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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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/dev/zero (category Unix file system technology)
/dev/zero is a special file in Unix-like operating systems that provides as many null characters (ASCII NUL, 0x00) as are read from it. One of the typical...
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rules and feature constraints on these rules. Head-driven phrase structure grammar PC-PATR, an implementation of PATR-II for PC and Unix systems. v t e...
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Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris Unix)
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers. Originally developed by Sun...
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