enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. In the Beginning... Was the Command Line - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was...

    Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ISBN 978-0380815937). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of competition from free software .

  3. Command-line interface - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface

    An MS-DOS command line, illustrating parsing into command and arguments. A command-line argument or parameter is an item of information provided to a program when it is started. [23] A program can have many command-line arguments that identify sources or destinations of information, or that alter the operation of the program.

  4. Linux From Scratch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_From_Scratch

    Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a type of a Linux installation and the name of a book written by Gerard Beekmans, and as of May 2021, mainly maintained by Bruce Dubbs. The book gives readers instructions on how to build a Linux system from source. The book is available freely from the Linux From Scratch site. [1]

  5. Linux - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. Family of Unix-like operating systems This article is about the family of operating systems. For the kernel, see Linux kernel. For other uses, see Linux (disambiguation). Operating system Linux Tux the penguin, the mascot of Linux Developer Community contributors, Linus Torvalds Written ...

  6. The Linux Programming Interface - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Programming...

    It chronicles the history of Unix and how it led to the creation of Linux. The book provides samples of code written in C, and learning exercises at the end of chapters. The author is a former writer for the Linux Weekly News [1] and the current maintainer for the Linux man pages project. [2]

  7. Shell script - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_script

    Editing a FreeBSD shell script for configuring ipfirewall. A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. [1] The various dialects of shell scripts are considered to be command languages.

  8. Unix shell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell

    A Unix shell is a command-line interpreter or shell that provides a command line user interface for Unix-like operating systems. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts. [2]

  9. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

    Prints a command to the terminal as Bash reads it. Bash reads constructs all at once, such as compound commands which include if-fi and case-esac blocks. If a set -v is included within a compound command, then "verbose" will be enabled the next time Bash reads code as input, ie, after the end of the currently executing construct. [108]