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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...
Started by Oscar Reyes on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
UNIX in all caps refers to the Trademark of The Open Group Unix is the genericized trademark of....
But unix may not be Unix and Unix is not always UNIX .
UNIX is Unix and Unix is unix.
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Is there a quick way to convert text file from Unix line breaks to Windows ones in Unix environment? I thought there could be a standard utility.
Started by alexeit on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
And such (or don't have unix2dos installed):
tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile to go from Windows -> Unix
awk 'sub("$", "\r")' unixfile.txt > winfile.txt to go from Unix -> Windows as tr can not go from Unix to Windows....
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I would like to compare all GNU Unix manuals and and Mac's Unix manuals by sdiff.
I do not know how you go through, for instance, all Mac's Unix manuals and then save them to a file.
The comparison can be done by the following code when the manuals are...
Started by Masi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
GNU is not based, in any way on UNIX, it could.
GNU means (G)NU is (N)ot (U)nix.
From the linux box.
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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...
Started by Luke on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
For more data on the layout of Linux file-systems, look at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (now at version 2.3)
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
This explains the purpose of each directory, and even tells you what directory is best to install software into... .
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Is there a free Unix (no Unix-like) distribution. [Edit] If there is no plain Unix distribution. What is the difference between Unix-like and Unix based distributions.
Thanks.
Started by kobra on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
But if you mean TM Unix, then doesn't your....
I originally thought you meant truly Unix-based (as opposed to Linux or OSX or whatever).
But now I'm confused.
Edit : nope, these are Unix-like.
FreeBSD , OpenBSD and NetBSD come to mind.
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This way surely works,but it calls UNIX_TIMESTAMP 2 times:
mysql> select UNIX_TIMESTAMP(now()) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-09-23 22:07:42'); + + | UNIX_TIMESTAMP(now()) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2009-09-23 22:07:42') | + + | 639 | + + 1 row in set (0.05 sec)
Started by Shore on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Basically a UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds since a weird epoch, so a difference.
Test).
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I want to know what is actual difference between Unix and Linux.
Do they share a same kernel ? Is Linux built over Unix Can programs written for Linux work over Unix and vice versa
Started by Xinus on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
One was Linux , which is a clone, written to act like Unix without containing any actual....
Unix was invented at AT&T of "free Unix" emerged in the 1990's.
Understand the answer it helps to look at the history of both operating sytems .
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How would you assess a Unix sys-admin.
What programming competences should a Unix admin have?
Started by becomingGuru on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I disagree be comfortable with using Linux or *BSD on the desktop, since that means they have to interact with the Unix.
Is to have them chat with somebody else who you know and trust to be a good Unix sys admin.
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Which one is the single most efficient book to start with the UNIX so as to have the indepth knowledge about UNIX OS?
Started by Sachin Chourasiya on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Despite being 30 years old it's concise and explains.
If you want to build an UNIX / LINUX yourself, read: Linux From Scratch
I'm fond of Kernighan and Pike: "Programming in the UNIX environment".
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I made an Unix command, macmac2unix, which converts Mac's Word file for Unix platforms.
I would like to run the command as
$macmac2unix file1 file2 file3 ...
Problem: How can I run this command in every path?
I added the following to .bashrc unsuccessfully...
Started by Masi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
You could reread/Documents/Unix:$PATH.
Try adding
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/Sam/Documents/Unix
to your .bashrc
Make your script executeable be sure it's located in /Users/Sam/Documents/Unix.
Add it to PATH, not CDPATH.
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