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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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was used mainly on Usenet newsgroups is fsck, derived from the name of the Unix file system checking utility. Language portal Human sexuality portal Society...
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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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FIFA World Cup starts in Argentina. June 2 – Japan Air Lines 115 had its tail struck on the runway on the airport it landed in. The same aircraft would...
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Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling 10,160 meters (33,330 feet) in the tail section of the aircraft. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is set up on the lawn...
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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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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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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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Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International. March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing...
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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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ཤིང་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dragon) 2151 or 1770 or 998 — to — ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 2152 or 1771 or 999 Unix time 1735689600 – 1767225599...
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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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program, a command-line archiving tool intended as a replacement for tar in Unix-like operating systems.[citation needed] Support for slices, archives split...
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