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 …

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) …

Sep 17, 2008 · I need to extract a certain section of this file (i.e. the data for a single database) and place it in a new file. I know both the start and end line numbers of the data that I want. …

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 …

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

Oct 30, 2008 · A Unix tick is 1 second (if I remember well), and a .NET tick is 100 nanoseconds. If you've been encountering problems with nanoseconds, you might want to try using AddTick …

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've got a large (by number of lines) plain text file that I'd like to split into smaller files, also by number of lines. So if my file has around 2M lines, I'd like to split it up into 10 files t...