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 …

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 …

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...

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) …

May 4, 2009 · First, if you look at the rm command man page (man rm under most Unix) you notice that –r means "remove the contents of directories recursively". So, doing rm -r . alone …

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How to check if $? is not equal to zero in unix shell scripting? Asked 12 years, 8 months ago Modified 3 years, 8 months ago Viewed 356k times

I'm confused about what the -p option does in Unix. I used it for a lab assignment while creating a subdirectory and then another subdirectory within that one. It looked like this: mkdir -p …

Adding n seconds to 1970-01-01 will give you a UTC date because n – the Unix timestamp – is the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), …