computing, tty is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems to print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input. tty stands for...
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designed for persons with hearing or speech difficulties tty (Unix), a command found in Unix-like operating systems Tampere University of Technology (Tampereen...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
acquire a new controlling tty even by accident (which happens when a session leader without a controlling tty opens a free tty), it may fork and exit again...
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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. The...
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EdDSA key generation utility pterm (Unix version only) an X11 client which supports the same terminal emulation as PuTTY Free and open-source software portal...
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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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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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Pseudoterminal (redirect from Pseudo TTY)
In some operating systems, including Unix-like systems, a pseudoterminal, pseudotty, or PTY is a pair of pseudo-device endpoints (files) which establish...
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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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In most Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the ps (process status) program displays the currently-running processes. The related Unix utility top provides...
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Getty (software) (redirect from Getty (unix))
getty, short for "get tty", is a Unix program running on a host computer that manages physical or virtual terminals (TTYs). When it detects a connection...
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11:12am up 608 day(s), 19:56, 6 users, load average: 0.36, 0.36, 0.37 User tty login@ idle what smithj pts/5 8:52am w jonesm pts/23 20Apr06 28 -bash harry...
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for Unix. When a new mail message is delivered, the program biff alerts the recipient so they can read it immediately. The alert is sent to the tty where...
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output of the echo command: alice@sleipnir:~$ # `tty` to show the current terminal name alice@sleipnir:~$ tty /dev/pts/7 alice@sleipnir:~$ echo Remember to...
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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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Getent (category Unix user management and support-related utilities)
accounts on a Unix system (stored in a database called 'group'): $ getent group root:x:0: daemon:x:1: bin:x:2: sys:x:3: adm:x:4:stefan tty:x:5: disk:x:6:...
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The standard Unix command who displays a list of users who are currently logged into the computer. The who command is related to the command w, which provides...
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Terminal emulator (section Unix-like systems)
background for more terminal emulators like Telix for Windows, ZOC for OS/2, or PuTTY, which was initially released for Windows in 1998 and which (together with...
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which is from the Latin catenare meaning "to chain" Originally developed for Unix, it is available on many operating systems and shells today. In addition...
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Vi (text editor) (redirect from Vi (Unix))
/ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs...
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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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Ttyrec (category Unix software)
original ttyrec (Unix, abandoned) ovh-ttyrec (Unix) Term::TtyRec (Perl) Term::TtyRec::Plus (Perl) Tie::Handle::TtyRec (Perl) termrec (Win32, Unix) TTYPLAYER...
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Computer terminal (redirect from Glass tty)
Flexowriter, electromechanical teleprinters/teletypewriters (TeleTYpewriter, TTY), such as the Teletype Model 33, originally used for telegraphy; early Teletypes...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from Sigprocmask (Unix))
limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...
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Iostat (redirect from Iostat (Unix))
such as NFS. It can also be used to provide information about terminal (TTY) input and output, and also includes some basic CPU information. iostat -x...
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redirection. Under Unix, devices are files too, so the normal type of file for the shell used for stdin, stdout and stderr is a tty device file. Another...
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Line discipline (category Unix)
networking stack on the serial line. Some Unix-like systems use STREAMS to implement line disciplines. The TTY demystified tty(4) – FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual...
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Init (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
Research Unix init runs the initialization shell script located at /etc/rc, then launches getty on terminals under the control of /etc/ttys. There are...
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (redirect from Unix FHS)
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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Mesg (category Unix user management and support-related utilities)
redirection may be used to control the permission of another TTY. For example: % mesg is y % tty /dev/tty1 % mesg < /dev/tty2 is y % mesg n < /dev/tty2 %...
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