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  • Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose...
    53 KB (5,604 words) - 20:47, 14 December 2022
  • The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...
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    Single UNIX Specification standards. It is usually implemented as a C Standard Library (libc) wrapper to the fork, clone, or other system calls of the...
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  • of Unix commands as specified by IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands can be found on Unix operating...
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  • call macros generate Program Call (PC). On Unix, Unix-like and other POSIX-compliant operating systems, popular system calls are open, read, write, close...
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    called sharp-exclamation, sha-bang, hashbang, pound-bang, or hash-pling. When a text file with a shebang is used as if it is an executable in a Unix-like...
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    cu ("call Unix") is a Unix utility for establishing a connection between two computer systems via a serial port to another computer system. When cu was...
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  • Seventh Edition Unix, also called Version 7 Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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  • In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing. A pipeline is a set of processes...
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  • Current Unix time 1671102814 (update) 2022-12-15T11:13:34+00:00 Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time...
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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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  • Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
    usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including library and system calls), formal standards...
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    A Unix domain socket aka UDS or IPC socket (inter-process communication socket) is a data communications endpoint for exchanging data between processes...
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    This act is also referred to as an overlay. It is especially important in Unix-like systems, although it exists elsewhere. As no new process is created...
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    system. The command su, including the Unix permissions system and the setuid system call, was part of Version 1 Unix. Encrypted passwords appeared in Version...
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    nice is a program found on Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. It directly maps to a kernel call of the same name. nice is used to invoke...
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  • access. df is typically implemented using the statfs or statvfs system calls. df for Unix-like systems is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2...
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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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    The versions leading to v7 are also sometimes called Ancient unix. After the release of Version 10, the Unix research team at Bell Labs turned its focus...
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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...
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