at compile time. In 1973, printf was included as a C standard library routine as part of Version 4 Unix. In 1990, the printf shell command, modeled after...
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printf is a shell command that formats and outputs text like the same-named C function. It is available in a variety of Unix and Unix-like systems. Some...
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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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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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Stat (system call) (redirect from Fstat (Unix))
printf("\tctime: %s", ctime(&sb.st_ctim.tv_sec)); printf("\n"); } return 0; } McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's...
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select is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file...
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original version was: main() { printf("hello, world\n"); } A more modern version is: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { printf("hello, world\n"); } The first...
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Echo (command) (category Standard Unix programs)
echo is considered a non-portable command and the printf command (introduced in Ninth Edition Unix) is preferred instead. The command is available the...
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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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common GNU Unix-like utilities. Textutils Join (SQL) Relational algebra List of Unix commands printf – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification...
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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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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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Commands Manual "fold.c – 1BSD". minnie.tuhs.org. printf – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group "fold(1)...
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net. cmp(1) – FreeBSD General Commands Manual printf – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group "cmp(1):...
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Diff (redirect from Diff (Unix))
the early 1970s for the Unix operating system, at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was part of the 5th Edition of Unix released in 1974, and was...
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Fish (friendly interactive shell; stylized in lowercase) is a Unix-like shell with a focus on interactivity and usability. Fish is designed to be feature-rich...
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Fork (system call) (redirect from Fork (Unix))
In computing, particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself...
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until the user presses a key. flasher () { while true; do printf \\e[?5h; sleep 0.1; printf \\e[?5l; read -s -n1 -t1 && break; done; } This can be used...
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NUM_THREADS; printf("Thread %d: Started.\n", index); printf("Thread %d: Will be sleeping for %d seconds.\n", index, sleep_time); sleep(sleep_time); printf("Thread...
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February 2005. printf format string scanf format string ISO/IEC 9899:1999 specification. p. 274, § 7.19. Kernighan, Brian; Pike, Rob (1984). The UNIX Programming...
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options of the Unix/POSIX style. It is a part of the POSIX specification, and is universal to Unix-like systems. It is also the name of a Unix program for...
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sum is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs a 16-bit checksum of each argument file, as well...
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Input Field Separators (category Unix)
bash shell or printing IFS with commands like printf %s "$IFS" | od -c, printf "%q\n" "$IFS" or printf %s "$IFS" | cat -A (the latter two commands being...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from Sigprocmask (Unix))
limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...
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application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly...
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Netstat (redirect from Netstat (Unix))
interface) and network protocol statistics. It is available on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems including macOS, Linux, Solaris and...
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refer to: %s, in printf format string %s, in scanf format string %s, seconds in the strftime format string %s, used to check the Unix timestamp a marker...
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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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compiled ; against the C Standard Library extern printf ; declares the use of external symbol, as printf ; printf is declared in a different object-module. ;...
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