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Who helped you put this list together? This document was one of the first collec

When someone refers to 'rn(1 It looks like some sort of function call, but it isn'

What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? awk = "Aho Weinberger and

How does the gateway between "comp.unix.questions" and the "info-unix" and

What are some useful Unix or C books? Mitch Wright (mitch@cirrus.com) maintains

What happened to the pronunciation list that used to be part of this From i

How do I remove a file whose name begins with a "-" ? Figure out some way to nam

How do I tell inside .cshrc if I'm a login shell? When people ask this, they usua

How do I construct a shell glob-pattern that matches all files You'd think t

How do I find the last argument in a Bourne shell script? Answer by:

What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH ? A bit of background: the PATH enviro

How do I ring the terminal bell during a shell script? The answer depends on your

Why can't I use "talk" to talk with my friend on machine X? Unix has three common

Why does calendar produce the wrong output? Frequently, people find that the outp

How do I remove a file with funny characters in the filename ? If the 'funny cha

How do I get a recursive directory listing? One of the following may do what you

How do I get the current directory into my prompt? It depends which shell you ar

How do I read characters from the terminal in a shell script? In sh, use read.

How do I rename "*.foo" to "*.bar", or change file names to lowercase? Why doesn

Why do I get [some strange error message] when I "rsh host command" ? (We're tal

How do I {set an environment variable, change directory} inside current shell?

How do I redirect stdout and stderr separately in csh? In csh, you can redirect

How do I find the creation time of a file? You can't - it isn't stored anywhere.

How do I find the process ID of a program with a particular name In a shell

How do I check the exit status of a remote command This doesn't work:

Is it possible to pass shell variable settings into an awk program? There are two

How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere? Unfortunately, it's impossib

How do I get lines from a pipe as they are written instead of only in The st

How do I get the date into a filename? This isn't hard, but it is a bit cryptic a

Why do some scripts start with #! ... ? Chip Rosenthal has answered a closely rel

How do I use "rsh" without having the rsh hang around until the (See note i

How do I truncate a file? The BSD function ftruncate() sets the length of a file

Why doesn't find's "{}" symbol do what I want? "find" has a -exec option that wi

How do I set the permissions on a symbolic link? Permissions on a symbolic link

How do I "undelete" a file? Someday, you are going to accidentally type somethin

How can a process detect if it's running in the background? First of all: do you

Why doesn't redirecting a loop work as intended? (Bourne shell Take the following exam

How do I run 'passwd', 'ftp', 'telnet', 'tip' and other interactive These p

How do I read characters from a terminal without requiring the user Check o

Is it possible to reconnect a process to a terminal after it has and logging out?

Is it possible to "spy" on a terminal, displaying the output There are a few

How do I check to see if there are characters to be read without Certain ve

How do I find the name of an open file? In general, this is too difficult. The

How can an executing program determine its own pathname? Your program can look a

How do I use popen( The problem with trying to pipe both input and output to an

How do I sleep( The first thing you need to be aware of is that all you can s

How can I get setuid shell scripts to work? [ This is a long answer, but it's a

How can I find out which user or process has a file open or is using Use fu

How do I keep track of people who are fingering me? Generally, you can't find ou

Can shells be classified into categories? In general there are two main class of

How do I "include" one shell script from within another shell script? All of the

Do all shells have aliases? Is there something else that can be used? All of th

How are shell variables assigned? The shells from the C shell category use "set

How can I tell if I am running an interactive shell? In the C shell category, lo

What "dot" files do the various shells use? Although this may not be a complete

I would like to know more about the differences between the A very detailed

Disclaimer, introduction and acknowledgements. NOTE TO READERS: I would like to

A very brief look at Unix history. Unix history goes back to 1969 and the famous

Main Unix flavors. The following is very much an early '90s view.

Main Players and Unix Standards. The more important players in the Unix scene cu

Identifying your Unix flavor. This section lists a number of things you can look

Brief notes on some well-known (commercial/PD (I am not at all satisfied with this sect

Real-time Unices. WARNING: this section is badly in need of work. It's full of e

Unix glossary. This section provides short definitions of various concepts and

RCS vs SCCS: Introduction The majority of the replies (in a recent poll) were in f

RCS vs SCCS: Conversion. An unsupported C-Shell script is available to convert from

RCS vs SCCS: Support SCCS is supported by AT&T. RCS is supported by the Free Softw

RCS vs SCCS: Command Comparison SCCS RCS E

RCS vs SCCS: Acknowledgements I would like to thank the following persons for contr

Can I get more information on configuration management systems? Bill Wohler, who com

RCS vs SCCS: How do the interfaces compare? RCS has an easier interface for first

RCS vs SCCS: What's in a Revision File? RCS keeps history in files with a ",v" suf

RCS vs SCCS: What are the keywords? RCS and SCCS use different keywords that are e

What's an RCS symbolic name? RCS allows you treat a set of files as a family of fil

RCS vs SCCS: How do they compare for performance? Since RCS stores the latest vers

RCS vs SCCS: Version Identification. SCCS is able to determine when a specific lin

RCS vs SCCS: How do they handle problems? If you are missing the sccs or rcs tools

RCS vs SCCS: How do they interact with make(1 The fact that SCCS uses prefixes (s.file.c)

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