In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, write is a utility used to send messages to another user by writing a message directly to another user's TTY...
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in A Quarter-Century of Unix (1994): Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams...
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File-system permissions (redirect from Write access)
users and groups of users. One well-established technology was developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX. Another common technology is an access-control...
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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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must have write permission for both because the command modifies the content of both. For a rename, an item's timestamp is not modified. On Unix implementations...
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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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book by Georges Jean write (system call), a system call that implements low-level file writing operations write (Unix), a Unix shell command that allows...
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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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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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which is from the Latin catenare meaning "to chain" Originally developed for Unix, it is available on many operating systems and shells today. In addition...
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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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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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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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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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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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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
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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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
environments extensively and by Android. Ritchie and Thompson used C to write Unix, which has been influential in establishing many computing concepts and...
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Chmod (category Standard Unix programs)
flags collectively. The command originated in AT&T Unix version 1 and was exclusive to Unix and Unix-like operating systems until it was ported to other...
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Ed (software) (redirect from Ed (UNIX))
letters, /ˌiːˈdiː/) is a line editor for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was one of the first parts of the Unix operating system that was developed...
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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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2015. [Linus] didn't write CTSS and he didn't write MULTICS and didn't write UNIX and he didn't write MINIX, but he did write Linux. I think Brown owes...
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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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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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storage was not reused. Originally, developed for Unix, today it is also available on Unix-like and non Unix-like systems, KolibriOS, IBM i, EFI shell. and...
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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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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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Tee (command) (redirect from Tee (UNIX))
read from standard input and write to standard output and files". www.mankier.com. "ibiblio.org FreeDOS Package -- tee (Unix-like)". www.ibiblio.org. "sponge(1):...
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Diff (redirect from Diff (Unix))
is called a "diff", or a patch, since the output can be applied with the Unix program patch. The output of similar file comparison utilities is also called...
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"NM(1)". Unix Seventh Edition General Commands Manual. Retrieved 2025-03-14. The Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands nm: write the...
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