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    Ls (redirect from Dir (Unix))
    similar functionality is provided by the dir command. An ls utility appeared in the first version of AT&T UNIX, the name inherited from a similar command...
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    The ln command is a standard Unix command utility used to create a hard link or a symbolic link (symlink) to an existing file or directory. The use of...
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    change_current_dir command. cd is frequently included built directly into a command-line interpreter. This is the case in most of the Unix shells (Bourne...
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  • Chmod (category Standard Unix programs)
    In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call used to change the access permissions and the special mode flags (the setuid...
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    Dir(s) 332,659,789,824 bytes free dir is not a Unix command; Unix has the analogous ls command instead. The GNU operating system, however, has a dir command...
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  • patterns specify sets of filenames with wildcard characters. For example, the Unix Bash shell command mv *.txt textfiles/ moves all files with names ending...
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  • Environment variable (redirect from %$DIR%)
    were introduced in their modern form in 1979 with Version 7 Unix, so are included in all Unix operating system flavors and variants from that point onward...
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  • Path (computing) (redirect from Unix path)
    syntax used the slash character as a 'switch' prefix. For example, dir /w runs the dir command with the wide list format option. This use of slash can still...
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    Multics (section Unix)
    inspire the creation of Unix, which carried forward many Multics features, but was able to run on less-expensive hardware. Unix was developed at Bell to...
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  • contents of a directory listing with files the user did not directly create. In Unix-like operating systems, any file or folder that starts with a dot character...
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  • documented in the 1930s. It is sometimes called a hack, whack, escape (from C/UNIX), reverse slash, slosh, downwhack, backslant, backwhack, bash, reverse slant...
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    as Dir/? and DIR /? in DOS, which have the same effect of listing the DIR command's available options, whereas dir --help (in many versions of Unix) does...
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    adding default arguments to a regularly used command. alias is available in Unix shells, AmigaDOS, 4DOS/4NT, FreeDOS, KolibriOS, Windows PowerShell, ReactOS...
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  • Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
    to manage a build process, Make remains widely used, especially in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. Make is not limited to building programs. It...
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  • Home directory (redirect from Home dir)
    also capable of localization (i.e. translation) of the folders' names. In Unix, the working directory is automatically set to a user's home directory when...
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  • a particular host system it might be used as such in any pathname (as in Unix systems). There are two ways that Windows UNC filenames (such as \\server\folder\data...
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    rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...
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  • (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands. $ dir Directory DISK$USER:[EBROCKLESBY...
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    Pwd (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
    man page]". www.unix.com. "working_dir, wd, print_wdir, pwd (Multics help segment)". MIT. Retrieved 7 March 2020. Van Vleck, Tom. "Unix and Multics". Multicians...
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    Mkdir (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
    The mkdir (make directory) command in the Unix, DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS operating systems is used to make a new directory...
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    In computing, sort is a standard command line program of Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of...
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    More (command) (redirect from More (Unix))
    using the dir command and display it one screen at a time using the more command: [C:\]dir C:\OS2 | more pg (Unix) less (Unix) most (Unix) Early history...
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  • When set, indicates that the hosting file is hidden. MS-DOS commands like dir and Windows apps like File Explorer do not show hidden files by default,...
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  • In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname...
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  • Standard streams (category Unix)
    be orchestrated by the program.[citation needed] Since Unix provided standard streams, the Unix C runtime environment was obliged to support it as well...
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  • Pax (command) (redirect from Pax (Unix))
    tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed new archive utility pax that could support various archive...
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    Tree (command) (redirect from Tree (Unix))
    cpp │ └── code.h └── z-last-file.html 1 directories, 6 files dir ls pstree List of Unix commands List of DOS commands FlexOS User's Guide (PDF) (Version...
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  • COMMAND.COM in DOS and Windows 9x systems, and analogous to the Unix shells used on Unix-like systems. The initial version of cmd.exe for Windows NT was...
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  • The following folders may appear in the root of a boot partition. Although Unix does not have a single standard for directory structures, in most implementations...
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  • whitespace (including indentation) in the text. Here documents originate in the Unix shell, and are found in the Bourne shell (sh), C shell (csh), tcsh (tcsh)...
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