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    Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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    A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X, *nix or *NIX) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily...
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    1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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    Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix or BSD Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer...
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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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  • Look up unix, Unix, UNIX, UN*X, or *nix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Unix may refer to: Unix, a family of operating systems, the first originally...
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    The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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    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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    A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive...
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  • Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is a standard for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark...
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  • executing in the same Unix or Unix-like operating system. The name, Unix domain socket, refers to the domain argument value AF_UNIX that is passed to the...
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    In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes...
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    Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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  • When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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    Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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    Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
    (short for manual page) is a form of software documentation found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Topics covered include programs, system libraries...
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    The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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    GNU (redirect from GNU's Not Unix)
    for "GNU's Not Unix!", chosen because GNU's design is Unix-like, but differs from Unix by being free software and containing no Unix code. Stallman chose...
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    19 January 2038. The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time—the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970)—and store...
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    Linux (category Unix variants)
    Linux (/ˈlɪnʊks/, LIN-uuks) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released...
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    facility, and sshd is a daemon that serves incoming SSH connections. In a Unix environment, the parent process of a daemon is often, but not always, the...
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    less is a terminal pager program on Unix, Windows, and Unix-like systems used to view (but not change) the contents of a text file one screen at a time...
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    Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix. Not all variants and...
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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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    In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts...
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    The computer tool patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file. The patch...
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    Cron (redirect from Crontab (Unix command))
    The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule...
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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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    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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  • 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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