The dump command is a program on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to back up file systems. It operates on blocks, below filesystem abstractions...
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In computing, a core dump, memory dump, crash dump, storage dump, system dump, or ABEND dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a...
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limited appeal Dump (Unix), a Unix program for backing up file systems Core dump, inaccurately but consistently referred to as a core dump in Unix-like systems...
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Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities. The od command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system. Normally a dump of an executable file is...
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nm is a Unix command used to dump the symbol table and their attributes from a binary executable file (including libraries, compiled object modules, shared-object...
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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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Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
via the operating system shell. Make is widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, even though many competing technologies and...
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In computing, a hex dump is a textual hexadecimal view (on screen or paper) of (often, but not necessarily binary) computer data, from memory or from a...
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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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panic() in AT&T-derived and BSD Unix source code, are generally designed to output an error message to the console, dump an image of kernel memory to disk...
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to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully. Usage: considered silly. Rare outside Unix sites...
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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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Kill (command) (redirect from Kill (Unix))
mapped to SIGQUIT, which can force a program to do a core dump. killall - on some variations of Unix, such as Solaris, this utility is automatically invoked...
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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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encoding Disk Archive - portable robust program for archiving and backup Dump (Unix) - UNIX utility for multilevel incremental file system backups. rsync - File...
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Backup rotation scheme Continuous data protection Delta encoding Dump (Unix) - UNIX utility for multilevel incremental file system backups. Incremental...
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Tee (command) (redirect from Tee (UNIX))
depending on the command's implementation. The command is available for Unix and Unix-like operating systems, Microware OS-9, DOS (e.g. 4DOS, FreeDOS), Microsoft...
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core dump was produced. The ELF format has replaced older executable formats in various environments. It has replaced a.out and COFF formats in Unix-like...
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Unexpand (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
unexpand is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to convert groups of space characters into tab characters. For example: $ echo...
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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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a compound of "root" (the traditional name of the privileged account on Unix-like operating systems) and the word "kit" (which refers to the software...
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Tsort (redirect from Tsort (Unix))
Unix and Unix-like platforms, that performs a topological sort on its input. It is part of the POSIX.1 standard. and has been since The Single UNIX Specification...
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DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM...
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while maintaining correct alignment. It is available in Unix operating systems and many Unix-like operating systems. The command is available as a separate...
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store Mac OS "dual-forked" files on the Unix filesystem being used in A/UX, the Macintosh platform's first Unix-like operating system. AppleSingle combined...
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Fstab (category Unix file system technology)
systems table) is a system file commonly found in the directory /etc on Unix and Unix-like computer systems. The /etc/fstab file is used by utilities from...
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local part and host. 1972 The Unix mail program enabled users to write mails and send them to mailboxes of other Unix users. Furthermore, it helped managing...
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/dev/random (category Unix file system technology)
In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are special files that serve as cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators (CSPRNGs)...
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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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