wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of...
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class World-Check, financial institution risk mitigation database wc (Unix), a Unix utility used for counting words and lines in a file Web Components...
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grep cccc 3 cccc wc (Unix) – the word count command cat (Unix) – concatenate command (-n flag is equivalent to nl -a) List of Unix commands nl – Shell...
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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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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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In computing, time is a command in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is used to determine the duration of execution of a particular command. time(1)...
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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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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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UnxUtils (redirect from Unix Utils)
unshar unzip uudecode uuencode wc wget which whoami xargs yes zcat zip zsh Free and open-source software portal Cygwin – Unix-like environment for Windows...
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GNU Core Utilities (category Unix software)
coreutils is a collection of GNU software that implements many standard, Unix-based shell commands. The utilities generally provide POSIX compliant interface...
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Pwd (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
Multics". Multicians.org. Retrieved 7 March 2020. wc – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group pwd(1) – FreeBSD...
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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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Process substitution (category Unix programming tools)
The rc shell provides the feature as "pipeline branching" in Version 10 Unix, released in 1990. The Bash shell provided process substitution no later...
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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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traditionally been adept at expressing one-liners. Shell interpreters such as Unix shells or Windows PowerShell allow for the construction of powerful one-liners...
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a website. Most word processors can also count words. Unix-like systems include a program, wc, specifically for word counting. There are a wide variety...
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Apache Subversion (redirect from Svn (Unix))
are used to unambiguously address filesystem items: Path (regular path of Unix-like OS filesystem) Revision Each revision in a Subversion filesystem has...
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Uptime (category Unix user management and support-related utilities)
timestamps – can allow remote estimation of uptime Website monitoring Who (Unix) – can display the time the system was booted "How to install multiple Windows...
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BusyBox (category Unix software)
BusyBox is a software suite that provides several Unix utilities in a single executable file. It runs in a variety of POSIX environments such as Linux...
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1970s. Despite similar names and close development dates, it is unrelated to UNIX System V. The key concepts in V are multithreading and synchronous message...
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management system initialized and developed by Carlo Strozzi that runs under Unix-like operating systems, or others with compatibility layers (e.g., Cygwin...
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Toybox (category Unix software)
Toybox is a free and open-source software implementation of over 200 Unix command line utilities such as ls, cp, and mv. The Toybox project was started...
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of literate programming is the literate implementation of the standard Unix wc word counting program. Knuth presented a CWEB version of this example in...
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3rd party copyrighted library called XAD that is available for all POSIX (Unix, Linux, BSD, and for AmigaOS, MorphOS, etc.). This library is freely distributable...
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largest word list in the world Obtained by running the UNIX command grep '.*[-_].* .*' mobypron.unc | wc -l after converting the line endings and correcting...
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built into the shell. The operating system had enough similarity to Unix that porting Unix source to the 1616/OS was relatively painless. Colin McCormack ported...
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Qshell (category Unix shells)
interactive mode as well as batch processing and can run shell scripts from Unix-like operating systems with few or no modifications. The following is a list...
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List of Plan 9 applications (category Unix software)
list of Plan 9 programs. Many of these programs are very similar to the UNIX programs with the same name, others are to be found only on Plan 9. Others...
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system" of the GNU operating system. GNU was designed to be a replacement for Unix operating systems of the 1980s and used the POSIX standards as a guide, but...
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tutorial on monads. Interesting cases: "UNIX pipes as IO monads" (by Oleg Kiselyov) — A short essay explaining how Unix pipes are effectively monadic. Pro...
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