• 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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  • When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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  • exact sequence Split Lie algebra Split (phylogenetics), a bipartition of a set of taxa in phylogenetics split (Unix), a Unix software utility (command) for...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Csplit (redirect from Csplit (Unix))
    The csplit command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems is a utility that is used to split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context...
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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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    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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    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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  • used for the layout of Unix-like systems. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other Unix-like systems as well...
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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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  • 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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  • In computing, cut is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which is used to extract sections from each line of input — usually...
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    rc (for "run commands") is the command-line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell...
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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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    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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  • distributions. The unixODBC project was split into several projects (all hosted on SourceForge); unixODBC ("Core" and "Dev" bits) unixODBC-GUI-Qt (Qt based...
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  • The install command is a Unix program used to copy files and set file permissions. Some implementations offer to invoke strip while installing executable...
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    Talk (software) (redirect from Unix talk)
    talk is a Unix text chat program, originally allowing messaging only between the users logged on to one multi-user computer—but later extended to allow...
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  • In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname...
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  • spanning utilities are available for nearly every OS and platform. Below are a few examples: PKZip/WinZip RAR/WinRAR PAR/Parchive split (Unix) File splitter...
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  • read is a command found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It reads a line of input from standard input or a file passed as an argument...
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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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  • from Unix-to-Unix Copy, i.e. "Unix-to-Unix encoding" is a safe encoding for the transfer of arbitrary files from one Unix system to another Unix system...
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    Linux (category Unix variants)
    Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...
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  • included into the 1994 book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook, and has been referred to as the origin of the notion of a conceptual split between developers on the east...
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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 Screen (redirect from Screen (Unix))
    command line interface, and for separating programs from the session of the Unix shell that started the program, particularly so a remote process continues...
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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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