• In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, write is a utility used to send messages to another user by writing a message directly to another user's TTY...
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    in A Quarter-Century of Unix (1994): Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams...
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  • users and groups of users. One well-established technology was developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX. Another common technology is an access-control...
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    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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  • must have write permission for both because the command modifies the content of both. For a rename, an item's timestamp is not modified. On Unix implementations...
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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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  • In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...
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    Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
    (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries...
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  • book by Georges Jean write (system call), a system call that implements low-level file writing operations write (Unix), a Unix shell command that allows...
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  • converting file data. Originally developed for Unix, it has been implemented on many other environments including Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Plan 9...
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    tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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    Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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    developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX and Single UNIX Specification, it is supported in many operating systems today, including Unix-like variants...
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    abbreviation of catenate, a variant form of concatenate. Originally developed for Unix, it is available on many operating systems and shells today. In addition...
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    Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
    environments extensively and by Android. Ritchie and Thompson used C to write Unix, which has been influential in establishing many computing concepts and...
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  • Chmod (category Standard Unix programs)
    flags collectively. The command originated in AT&T Unix version 1 and was exclusive to Unix and Unix-like operating systems until it was ported to other...
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    interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...
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    Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer...
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    Ed (software) (redirect from Ed (UNIX))
    letters, /ˌiːˈdiː/) is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed...
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  • 2015. [Linus] didn't write CTSS and he didn't write MULTICS and didn't write UNIX and he didn't write MINIX, but he did write Linux. I think Brown owes...
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    The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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  • Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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    storage was not reused. Originally, developed for Unix, today it is also available on Unix-like and non Unix-like systems, KolibriOS, IBM i, EFI shell. and...
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    In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes...
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    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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  • "NM(1)". Unix Seventh Edition General Commands Manual. Retrieved 2025-03-14. The Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands nm: write the...
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  • UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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  • Tee (command) (redirect from Tee (UNIX))
    read from standard input and write to standard output and files". www.mankier.com. "ibiblio.org FreeDOS Package -- tee (Unix-like)". www.ibiblio.org. "sponge(1):...
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  • also available to write out just the changes made to the data in the file, and not necessarily the file's related metadata. Some Unix systems run a kind...
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  • Null device (redirect from Unix null device)
    data written to it but reports that the write operation succeeded. This device is called /dev/null on Unix and Unix-like systems, NUL: (see TOPS-20) or NUL...
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