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  2. Ansible (software) - Wikipedia

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    The term "ansible" was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World, [4] and refers to fictional instantaneous communication systems.[5] [6]The Ansible tool was developed by Michael DeHaan, the author of the provisioning server application Cobbler and co-author of the Fedora Unified Network Controller (Func) framework for remote administration.

  3. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Specific examples include: In the Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [2] command-line interfaces, the timeout command pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. [3] [4] In POP connections, the server will usually close a client connection after a certain period of inactivity (the timeout period). This ensures that connections ...

  4. Configuration file - Wikipedia

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    This was a plain text file with simple key–value pairs (e.g. DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\\ANSI.SYS) until MS-DOS 6, which introduced an INI-file style format. There was also a standard plain text batch file named AUTOEXEC.BAT that ran a series of commands on boot. Both these files were retained up to Windows 98SE, which still ran on top of MS-DOS.

  5. TIME (command) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, TIME is a command in DEC RT-11, [1] DOS, IBM OS/2, [2] Microsoft Windows [3] and a number of other operating systems that is used to display and set the current system time. [4] It is included in command-line interpreters such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, 4OS2 and 4NT.

  6. sleep (command) - Wikipedia

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    A sleep command is also part of ASCII's MSX-DOS2 Tools for MSX-DOS version 2. [8] In PowerShell, sleep is a predefined command alias for the Start-Sleep cmdlet which serves the same purpose. [9] Microsoft also provides a sleep resource kit tool for Windows which can be used in batch files or the command prompt to pause the execution and wait ...

  7. Unix file types - Wikipedia

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    A file's type can be identified by the ls -l command, which displays the type in the first character of the file-system permissions field. For regular files, Unix does not impose or provide any internal file structure; therefore, their structure and interpretation is entirely dependent on the software using them. [2]

  8. Text-based user interface - Wikipedia

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    Some file managers implement a TUI (here: Midnight Commander) Vim is a very widely used TUI text editor. In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an early form of human–computer interaction, before ...

  9. BusyBox - Wikipedia

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    chroot — Run command within a new root directory. chrt; chvt; cksum — For each file, output crc32 checksum value, length and name of file. clear — Clear the screen. cmp — Compare the contents of two files. comm — Select or reject lines common to two files. cp — Copy files. cpio — Copy files into and out of a "newc" format cpio ...