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I've been using Linux for a couple of years now but I still haven't figured out what the origin or meaning of some the directory names are on Unix and Unix like systems. E.g. what does etc stand for or var ? Where does the opt name come from?
And while...
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It hold system logfiles, lock files, spool files, and other things.
The latter is because the files in /var can never mount /var read-only .
Of unrelated system configuration files go into /etc .
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I'll admit that I don't know the inner workings of the unix operating system, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on this topic.
Why is the Unix file system better than the windows file system?
Would grep work just as well on Windows, or is ...
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One of the fundamental....
There is no 'Unix' and 'Windows' file the other.
I think you are a little bit confused.
Second, upon what premise does your argument rest? Did Cygwin first thing .
There is no such thing as "the Unix file system".
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I need to copy the result of the bleow script to a describe location of a unix system. the script is
@echo off setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion set Counter=0 set FILEPATH=C:\VPM-WNC-MANUAL-MIGRATION for /f "usebackq tokens=2,5,6 delims...
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You can use ftp or scp to upload the result to a unix server.
Then copy the file normally, as if it were to a local hard drive .
You can use Samba to mount a unix filesystem as a Windows drive.
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Derived from this question :
If opensolaris, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd are not UNIX, what is then?
What confuses me more, is the fact OSX1.5+ is UNIX, while prior version of OSX weren't
What is the difference between UNIX and UNIX-like?
And what is the...
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"Only refers to an operating system that behaves like traditional UNIX (forking methods, same method tied to It's ....
Unix is a trademark owned by The Open Group.
unix is the common term for UNIX like system.
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How can I find all of the symbolic links on a unix/linux system?
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I've seen more than one reasonable system.
In a reasonable environment, days or weeks is very possible .
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What is the sticky bit in a UNIX file system?
As an admin when and how would you use it?
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This use has mostly been deprecated as OSes are pretty smart about this sort of thing now... .
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit
Its original use was to provide a hint to the OS that the executable should be cached in memory so it would load faster .
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What script or program is needed to keep a unix system date correct? I find that my linux servers are behind a few minutes from actual time.
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However, you'll probably also want "....
Also, you might try adjtime
ntpd, as others have pointed out, is the obvious choice to keep the clock in sync once it's set .
Here's some info for installing and configuring it on Ubuntu .
You're looking for ntp.
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I need some command like GREP in UNIX for WINDOWS Operating system, If there any way to use grep or any equivalent command in Windows?
Please help
Started by Sachin Chourasiya on
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Install....
There are a couple of native projects for Unix tools: GnuWin32 and UnxUtils .
Cygwin uses a dll that simulates POSIX behaviour.
One way is to install Cygwin.
Collection of command line tools that are common on unix systems.
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I use putty on Vista to connect to remote UNIX shell. But I want to copy files from that remote server to my local Vista system. How to do that??
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Http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
If you're using PuTTY....
If you can connect via SSH there is PuTTY and then 99 times out of 100 if you can SSH you can also SCP(Secure Copy) .
Cygwin + scp/ftp?
Use PSCP; PuTTY Secure Copy.
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Recently, I've been trying to learn more about the inner workings of Unix. One really great feature I've found about Unix systems and the C programming language, is that there is a great level of transparency. By design, this transparency is not available...
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Back....
It's a perfectly valid choice.
Will it be as transparent as Unix to do with open source Even when Unix was closed-source, it was still vastly more transparent than.
Windows Internals (5th edition I believe is the latest) is one such .
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