touch is a shell command that sets the modification timestamp of an existing file to be current – which on a Unix-based file system includes special files...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
1-2024, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands are commonly implemented in Unix and Unix-like shells and many are available...
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Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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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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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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HP-UX (redirect from Hewlett Packard UniX)
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise; current versions...
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Vi (text editor) (redirect from Vi (Unix))
/ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs...
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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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Unix System Laboratories (USL), sometimes written UNIX System Laboratories to follow relevant trademark guidelines of the time, was an American software...
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computers since their introduction in 1984. However, the current macOS is a UNIX operating system built on technology that had been developed at NeXT from...
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Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and the Unix operating system and B language with long-time colleague Ken Thompson. Ritchie...
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IOS (redirect from IPod Touch OS)
macOS, it includes components of the Mach microkernel and FreeBSD. It is a Unix-like operating system. Although some parts of iOS are open source under the...
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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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Umask (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
value that limits the file permissions for newly created files in many Unix and Unix-like file systems. A system call with the same name, umask(), provides...
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BlackBerry OS Windows Mobile Unix and Unix-like iOS iPadOS watchOS Linux Android Fire OS LineageOS webOS Bada Ubuntu Touch Tizen Firefox OS KaiOS Sailfish...
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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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Darwin (operating system) (category Unix variants)
Darwin is the core Unix-like operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent...
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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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SCO–Linux disputes (section UNIX SVRx)
announced they had no interest in suing people over Unix and stated "We don't believe there is Unix in Linux". The final district court ruling, on November...
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Xcopilot is a Palm Pilot emulator that runs under Unix/X11. It offers emulation of the timer, serial ports, touch pad and LCD along with Motorola 68000 emulation...
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Oracle Solaris (redirect from Solaris Unix)
Oracle Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system offered by Oracle for SPARC and x86-64 based workstations and servers. Originally developed by Sun...
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purchase of NeXT. It brought an entirely new architecture based on NeXTSTEP, a Unix system, that eliminated many of the technical challenges that the classic...
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KDE Plasma (category Unix windowing system-related software)
KDE Plasma is a set of graphical shells developed by KDE for Unix-like operating systems. With the KDE brand repositioning in 2009, Plasma 4.4 succeeded...
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previously only used on the iPhone and its smaller counterpart, the iPod Touch. This shared operating system was rebranded as iOS with the release of iOS...
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Santa Cruz Operation (category Unix history)
selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...
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HP TouchSmart is a series of tablet PC laptops and touchscreen all-in-one desktop computers designed by HP. It features various Intel or AMD processors...
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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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the GUIs used in Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2 Presentation Manager, and the Unix Motif toolkit and window manager. These ideas evolved to create the interface...
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X Window System (category Unix windowing system-related software)
(X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems. X originated as part of Project Athena at Massachusetts...
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Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is part of the GNU Project...
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