vi (pronounced as distinct letters, /ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset...
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Ed (software) (redirect from Ed (UNIX))
POSIX and Open Group standards for Unix-based operating systems, alongside the more sophisticated full-screen editor vi. The ed text editor was one of the...
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Research Unix: (early versions only) Version 1 Unix Version 2 Unix Version 3 Unix Version 4 Unix Version 5 Unix Version 6 Unix Version 7 Unix UNIX/32V As...
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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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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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Vim (text editor) (redirect from Vi IMproved)
June 1988). "v15i037: Stevie, an "aspiring" VI clone for Unix, OS/2, Amiga". Newsgroup: comp.sources.unix. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
applications List of Unix daemons List of web browsers for Unix and Unix-like operating systems Unix philosophy util-linux The Wikibook Guide to UNIX has a page...
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Editor war (redirect from Cult of vi)
and Lua. Ubiquitousness. Essentially all Unix and Unix-like systems come with vi (or a variant) built-in. Vi (and ex, but not vim) is specified in the...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)...
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The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its...
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Ex (text editor) (redirect from Ex (Unix))
ex, short for EXtended,[better source needed] is a line editor for Unix systems originally written by Bill Joy in 1976, beginning with an earlier program...
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The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed...
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List of text editors (section vi clones)
Fujitsu BS2000 systems ex – an EXtended version of Unix's ed, later evolved into the visual editor vi fred – sed-like line editor used on the CDC 7600 at...
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files, known as shell scripts, facilitating automation. In keeping with Unix shell conventions, Bash incorporates a rich set of features. The keywords...
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A Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System by John Lions (later reissued as Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition) is a highly influential...
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Bill Joy (category Unix people)
in the early development of BSD UNIX while being a graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the...
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pg is a terminal pager program on Unix and Unix-like systems for viewing text files. It can also be used to page through the output of a command via a...
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Curses (programming library) (redirect from Unix curses)
curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on 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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Animals". Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators. 9 (1): 25. Mike Riley (September 9, 2008). "Learning the vi and Vim Editors Book Review". Dr...
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In Unix, graph is a command-line utility used to draw plots from tabular data. The graph utility, written by Douglas McIlroy, was present in the first...
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Stevie (text editor) (category Unix text editors)
prominent vi clones were Stevie and Elvis. Stevie, the ST Editor for vi Enthusiasts, was originally developed for the Atari ST in 1987 and ported to UNIX the...
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File (command) (redirect from File (Unix))
Unix and Unix-like operating systems for recognizing the type of data contained in a computer file. The original version of file originated in Unix Research...
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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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Interactive Systems Corporation (redirect from Interactive Unix)
abbreviated ISC) was a US-based software company and the first vendor of the Unix operating system outside AT&T, operating from Santa Monica, California. It...
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Xenix (category Lightweight Unix-like systems)
Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late...
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Sed (redirect from Ssed (Unix))
sed ("stream editor") is a Unix utility that parses and transforms text, using a simple, compact programming language. It was developed from 1973 to 1974...
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KornShell (category Unix shells)
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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