May 22, 2025 · Single UNIX Specification- “The Standard” The Single UNIX Specification is the standard in which the core interfaces of a UNIX OS are measured. The UNIX standard …

Sep 10, 2011 · When you try to execute a program in unix (one with the executable bit set), the operating system will look at the first few bytes of the file. These form the so-called "magic …

Sep 14, 2012 · In Bash, there appear to be several variables which hold special, consistently-meaning values. For instance, ./myprogram &; echo $! will return the PID of the process …

Oct 5, 2012 · I came across a shell script that contains a statement like, if [ $val -eq $? ] What does $? mean here?

Jul 3, 2013 · pgrep -x <process_name> | xargs kill -9 (incidentally, for this specific use case, might as well do pkill -9 -x <process_name>, but the question asked how to get the PID in general) …

I know that using ls -l "directory/directory/filename" tells me the permissions of a file. How do I do the same on a directory? I could obviously use ls -l on the directory higher in the hierarchy...

2 Take a look at Job Control on UNIX systems If you don't have control of your shell, simply hitting ctrl + C should stop the process. If that doesn't work, you can try ctrl + Z and using the jobs …

Nov 23, 2009 · Since every Unix does things a little differently -- Solaris, Mac OS X, IRIX, BSD, and Linux all have their quirks -- POSIX is especially useful to those in the industry as it …

I have a terminal connected to an external machine through ssh and have a process running in it. Is it possible move the execution to the background, so that I can close the ssh connection …

Explanation Unix system represent a point in time as a number. Specifically the number of seconds* since a zero-time called the Unix epoch which is 1/1/1970 00:00 UTC/GMT. This …