cygwin The Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands strings – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from...
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compression – Means of compressing an executable file List of POSIX commands strings (Unix) – Shell command for extracting printable text from a binary file Symbol...
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maps strings to strings while tr maps characters to characters. sed List of Unix commands GNU Core Utilities McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader:...
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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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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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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob (Unix))
simple library to match strings against Bourne Shell globs. Traditionally, globs do not match hidden files in the form of Unix dotfiles; to match them...
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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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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
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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text like the same-named C function. It is available in a variety of Unix and Unix-like systems. Some shells implement the command as builtin and some...
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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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Debian package version strings and similar tasks where numbers of variable length are embedded in strings. Collation List of Unix commands uniq shuf "sort(1):...
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Grep (redirect from Grep (Unix))
effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later became available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9. Before...
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Exec (system call) (redirect from Exec (Unix))
This act is also referred to as an overlay. It is especially important in Unix-like systems, although it also exists elsewhere. As no new process is created...
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Here document (section Unix shells)
whitespace (including indentation) in the text. Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell since 1979, and most subsequent...
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configurations and the user agent strings generated by Internet Explorer on these platforms:" The homepage for IE for Unix was removed from Microsoft's website...
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String (computer science) (redirect from Character strings)
called an alphabet. A primary purpose of strings is to store human-readable text, like words and sentences. Strings are used to communicate information from...
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files as a single archive file. Originally developed for Unix, it is widely available on Unix-based systems, and similar commands are available on other...
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M4 (computer language) (category Unix programming tools)
m4 is a general-purpose macro processor included in most Unix-like operating systems, and is a component of the POSIX standard. The language was designed...
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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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formalized the concept of a regular language. They came into common use with Unix text-processing utilities. Different syntaxes for writing regular expressions...
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Lex (software) (category Unix programming tools)
parser generator and is the standard lexical analyzer generator on many Unix and Unix-like systems. An equivalent tool is specified as part of the POSIX standard...
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Connection string (redirect from Connection strings)
specify connection strings: on the command line (as in: sqlplus scott/tiger@connection_string ) via environment variables ($TWO_TASK in Unix-like environments;...
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Expr (redirect from Expr (Unix))
utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which evaluates an expression and outputs the corresponding value. It first appeared in Unix v7. The command...
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processing. The user, on Unix-type systems, sets the environment variable LC_MESSAGES, and the program will display strings in the selected language,...
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AWK (category Standard Unix programs)
Like sed and grep, it is a filter, and it is a standard feature of most Unix-like operating systems. The AWK language is a data-driven scripting language...
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Path (computing) (redirect from Unix path)
simplified by using raw strings, as in C#'s @"\\\\" or Python's r'\\\\', or regular expression literals, as in Perl's qr{\\\\}. Most Unix-like systems use a...
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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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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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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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