A Unix shell is a shell that provides a command-line user interface for a Unix-like operating system. A Unix shell provides a command language that can...
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(short for "Bourne Again SHell") is an interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for Unix-like operating systems. Created...
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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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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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version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell. Although there are general...
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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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command-line interpreter for Version 10 Unix and Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating systems. It resembles the Bourne shell, but its syntax is somewhat simpler...
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Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. Unix-like...
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extended to Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows. On Unix-like systems, Secure Shell protocol (SSH) is usually used for text-based shells, while SSH...
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A shell account is a user account on a remote server, typically running under Unix or Linux operating systems. The account gives access to a text-based...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems. This list does not cover commands for all versions of Unix and Unix-like shells nor...
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The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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form of concatenate. Originally developed for Unix, it is available on many operating systems and shells today. In addition to combining files, cat is...
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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob (Unix))
part of every Unix-like libc ecosystem and shell, including AT&T Bourne shell-compatible Korn shell (ksh), Z shell (zsh), Almquist shell (ash) and its...
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designed for Unix-like operating systems as a replacement for Telnet and unsecured remote Unix shell protocols, such as the Berkeley Remote Shell (rsh) and...
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Unary operation (section Unix shell (Bash))
sizeof(type-name) Cast: (type-name) cast-expression In the Unix shell (Bash/Bourne Shell), e.g., the following operators are unary: Pre and Post-Increment:...
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The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley...
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KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell which was developed by David Korn at Bell Labs in the early 1980s and announced at USENIX on July 14, 1983. The initial...
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freeing the command line for additional work with the shell. POSIX shells and other Unix shells allow background execution by using the & character at...
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Wikibook Guide to Unix has a page on the topic of: Commands df: report free disk space – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version...
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Command-line interface (redirect from Command-line shell)
or shell. Examples of command-line interpreters include Nushell, DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh...
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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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completed. The standard shell syntax for anonymous pipes is to list multiple commands, separated by vertical bars ("pipes" in common Unix verbiage). The pipeline...
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interface via PowerShell cmdlets. PowerShell includes its own extensive, console-based help (similar to man pages in Unix shells) accessible via the...
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POSIX commands ln (Unix) – Shell command for creating a link file move (command) – Shell command for moving files ren (command) – Shell command for renaming...
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Here document (section Unix shells)
Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell since 1979, and most subsequent shells. Here document-style string literals...
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Ls (redirect from Ls (Unix and Linux command))
ls is a shell command for listing files – including special files such as directories. Originally developed for Unix and later codified by POSIX and Single...
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Pushd and popd (section Unix-like)
via the dirs Unix command or Get-Location -stack PowerShell command. The working directory is at the top of the stack. The first Unix shell to provide a...
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Almquist shell (also known as A Shell, ash and sh) is a lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s. Initially a clone...
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The Z shell (Zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh is an extended...
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