tail is a program available on Unix, Unix-like systems, FreeDOS and MSX-DOS used to display the tail end of a text file or piped data. The version of tail...
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to the IBM i operating system. tail (Unix) dd (Unix) List of Unix commands Spinellis, Diomidis (2022). "dspinellis/unix-history-man: Version 1.0 web pages...
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designed for anonymity and privacy Tail (Unix), a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file Tail, one of the extreme ends of a probability...
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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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The Unix file system (UFS) is a family of file systems supported by many Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is a distant descendant of the original...
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Filter (software) (redirect from Filter (Unix))
string "foo" and prints them on its output. Common Unix filter programs are: cat, cut, grep, head, sort, tail, and uniq. Programs like awk and sed can be used...
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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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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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UnixWare is a Unix operating system. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell...
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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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Sed (redirect from Ssed (Unix))
sed ("stream editor") is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language. It was developed from 1973 to 1974...
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UnxUtils (redirect from Unix Utils)
UnxUtils is a collection of utility programs that provide popular Unix-based shell commands – ported from GNU implementations as native Windows programs...
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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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Tar (computing) (redirect from Tar (Unix))
yet tar continues to have widespread use. The command was introduced to Unix in January 1979, replacing the tp program (which in turn replaced "tap")...
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Block suballocation (redirect from Tail packing)
fragments, this feature is also called tail merging or tail packing because it is commonly done by packing the "tail", or last partial block, of multiple...
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has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, MsDOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for...
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the Go software AlphaGo developed by DeepMind /dev/zero a special file in Unix-like operating systems that outputs null characters Zero client, a variant...
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Dmesg (category Unix software)
dmesg (diagnostic messages) is a command on most Unix-like operating systems that prints the message buffer of the kernel. The output includes messages...
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gate is guarded by Cerberus. A software backup program, for use in Unix and Unix-like environments such as Linux and FreeBSD. The name of a special prison...
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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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Linked list (redirect from Tail sharing)
list for their file system catalog. The directory structure was similar to Unix, where a directory could contain files and other directories and extend to...
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form user@host is also seen in other tools and protocols; for example, the Unix shell command ssh [email protected] tries to establish an ssh connection to...
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and first implemented in 1992 by Ousterhout and Mendel Rosenblum for the Unix-like Sprite distributed operating system. Conventional file systems lay out...
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System V Release 4, and some other Unix systems, retrofitted symbolic links to their versions of the Version 7 Unix file system, although the original...
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order to separate them Web banner, a form of online advertising Banner (Unix), a program for generating a large ASCII art version of input text Banner...
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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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other applications and has since become the standard logging solution on Unix-like systems. A variety of implementations also exist on other operating...
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SINE ("SINE is not EINE"). Richard Stallman followed with GNU (GNU's Not Unix). Recursive acronym examples often include negatives, such as denials that...
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required to support. The POSIX standard added several nonstandard C headers for Unix-specific functionality. Many have found their way to other architectures...
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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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