as cd. Use of the command varies by context, but there are widespread similarities among variants. The examples below, mostly apply to Unix and Unix-like...
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shebang and the interpreter name". USENET. "CSRG Archive CD-ROMs". UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM: UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL (PDF), vol. 2A (Seventh ed.), January...
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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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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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tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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Pwd (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
associated with Unix, its predecessor Multics had a pwd command (which was a short name of the print_wdir command) from which the Unix command originated...
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Ls (redirect from Ls (Unix and Linux command))
developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX and Single UNIX Specification, it is supported in many operating systems today, including Unix-like variants...
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converting file data. Originally developed for Unix, it has been implemented on many other environments including Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Plan 9...
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Yggdrasil is compliant with the Unix Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Yggdrasil announced their ‘bootable Linux/GNU/X-based UNIX(R) clone for PC compatibles’...
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X-CD-Roast is a GTK+ front-end for cdrtools which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for CD authoring. X-CD-Roast runs on Linux and other Unix-like...
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Path (computing) (redirect from Unix path)
is invalid, but dir "/window" is valid. And cd is more lenient by allowing cd /windows. basename – Unix string manipulation utility Device file – Interface...
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Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting)
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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OpenServer (redirect from SCO UNIX)
Xinuos OpenServer, previously SCO UNIX and SCO Open Desktop (SCO ODT), is a closed source computer operating system developed by Santa Cruz Operation (SCO)...
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ISO 9660 (redirect from El Torito (CD-ROM standard))
(eight levels of directories deep) tree file system arrangement, similar to Unix file systems and FAT. To facilitate cross platform compatibility, it defined...
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burning utility dvd+rw-tools, a package for DVD and Blu-ray writing on Unix and Unix-like systems K3b, the KDE disc authoring program Nautilus, the GNOME...
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The files on a live CD ISO image can be accessed in Microsoft Windows with a disk image emulator such as Daemon Tools, or in Unix variants by mounting...
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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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Disk image (redirect from CD image)
WinImage create floppy disk image files for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. In Unix or similar systems the dd program can be used to create raw disk images....
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K3b (category Linux CD ripping software)
CD, DVD and Blu-ray authoring application by KDE for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD...
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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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Ken Thompson (category Unix people)
Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct...
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for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit. It was part of the UNIX 98 Workstation Product Standard, and was for a long time the Unix desktop...
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Dot (command) (redirect from Dot (Unix))
In a Unix shell, the full stop called the dot command (.) is a command that evaluates commands in a computer file in the current execution context. In...
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SunOS (redirect from SunOS Unix)
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems from 1982 until the mid-1990s...
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Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like operating systems that evaluates conditional expressions. test was turned into a shell builtin command in 1981 with UNIX System...
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Whereis (category Unix user management and support-related utilities)
/usr/man/man1 with source in /usr/src: % cd /usr/bin % whereis -u -M /usr/man/man1 -S /usr/src -f * The Unix type command is similar, but it identifies...
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GNU Hurd (category Unix variants)
Project of the Free Software Foundation, designed as a replacement for the Unix kernel, and released as free software under the GNU General Public License...
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computers since their introduction in 1984. However, the current macOS is a UNIX operating system built on technology that had been developed at NeXT from...
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Union mount (section Unix and BSD)
(mid-1980s onward), union mounting is a central concept, replacing several older Unix conventions with union directories; for example, several directories containing...
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Multi-Environment Real-Time (redirect from UNIX-RTR)
Multi-Environment Real-Time (MERT), later renamed UNIX Real-Time (UNIX-RT), is a hybrid time-sharing and real-time operating system developed in the 1970s...
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