Command Prompt. Like rm, the unlink command also removes (unlinks) files, but only one file at a time. On some old versions of Unix, the rm command would remove...
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yes is a command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, which outputs an affirmative response, or a user-defined string of text continuously until killed...
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(ATM) networks Reuters Messaging, an instant messenger application rm (Unix), a Unix command for the removal of files Faraday rotation measure, in astrophysics...
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List of Unix commands link (Unix) ln (Unix) "GNU Coreutils: unlink invocation". www.gnu.org. "unlink". pubs.opengroup.org. Differences Between rm and unlink...
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moving files ren (command) – Shell command for renaming a file or directory rm (Unix) – Shell command for deleting files Multics Commands mv(1) – FreeBSD General...
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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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of free and open-source software packages rm (Unix) – Shell command for deleting files shred (Unix) – Unix command to securely delete files and devices...
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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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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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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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Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
via the operating system shell. Make is widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, even though many competing technologies and...
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Null device (redirect from Unix null device)
/dev/zero Device file Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Memory hole rm (Unix) Standard streams Unix philosophy Write-only memory The most recent being z/VSE. The...
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On Unix-like computer systems, seq is a utility for generating a sequence of numbers. seq first appeared on 8th edition Research Unix in 1985, and was...
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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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SINIX (redirect from Reliant UNIX)
SINIX is a discontinued variant of the Unix operating system from Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme. SINIX supersedes SIRM OS and Pyramid Technology's...
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Rmdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
is not empty in UNIX. The rm command will remove a directory and all its contents recursively. For example: $ rm -r foo/bar/baz $ rm -rf foo/bar/baz Normal...
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Utilities – Collection of standard, Unix-based utilities from GNU List of POSIX commands mv – Shell command for moving files rm – Shell command for deleting...
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The script command is a Unix utility that records a terminal session. It dates back to the 1979 3.0 Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). A script session...
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The AT&T UNIX PC is a Unix desktop computer originally developed by Convergent Technologies (later acquired by Unisys), and marketed by AT&T Information...
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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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shred is a command on Unix-like operating systems that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that it is extremely difficult to recover them...
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in Unix and Unix-like environments, an example of a command-line argument is: rm file.s file.s is a command-line argument which tells the program rm to...
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Named pipe (section In Unix)
for its behavior) is an extension to the traditional pipe concept on Unix and Unix-like systems, and is one of the methods of inter-process communication...
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Setuid (category Unix file system technology)
The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) allow users to run an executable with the...
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Dsw (command) (category Standard Unix programs)
of POSIX commands A Brief History of the 'rm' and 'rmdir' commands McIlroy, M. D. (1987). A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's...
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Alias (command) (redirect from Alias (Unix shell))
including commonly-used arguments with a command. The command is available in Unix shells, AmigaDOS, 4DOS/4NT, FreeDOS, KolibriOS, PowerShell, ReactOS, EFI...
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Chroot (redirect from Chroot (Unix))
chroot is a shell command and a system call on Unix and Unix-like operating systems that changes the apparent root directory for the current running process...
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Zilog Z8000 (redirect from Zilog Enhanced UNIX System)
S8000 computer came out with a version of Unix called ZEUS (Zilog Enhanced Unix System). ZEUS was a port of Unix Version 7 and included what were referred...
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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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Device file (category Unix file system technology)
In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were...
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