enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. wait (command) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_(command)

    This command can be useful where part of a script can execute in parallel to implement a barrier where an upcoming section depends on the successful completion of the preceding sections. The following example will fetch the src/ directory from a machine named iona using rsync and simultaneously update the libraries on which this program depends ...

  3. 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.

  4. Bash (Unix shell) - Wikipedia

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

    In computing, Bash (short for "Bourne Again SHell,") [6] is an interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. [7] Created in 1989 [ 8 ] by Brian Fox for the GNU Project , it is supported by the Free Software Foundation and designed as a 100% free alternative for the Bourne shell ( sh ...

  5. While loop - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While_loop

    The repeat statement repetitively executes a block of one or more statements through an until statement and continues repeating unless the condition is false. The main difference between the two is the while loop may execute zero times if the condition is initially false, the repeat-until loop always executes at least once.

  6. Command-line completion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_completion

    Command-line completion allows the user to type the first few characters of a command, program, or filename, and press a completion key (normally Tab ↹) to fill in the rest of the item. The user then presses Return or ↵ Enter to run the command or open the file.

  7. Do while loop - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_while_loop

    This repeats until the condition becomes false. Do while loops check the condition after the block of code is executed. This control structure can be known as a post-test loop. This means the do-while loop is an exit-condition loop. However a while loop will test the condition before the code within the block is executed.

  8. C shell - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell

    C Shell running on Windows Services for UNIX. The C shell (csh or the improved version, tcsh) is a Unix shell created by Bill Joy while he was a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s.

  9. Infinite loop - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop

    As long as the system is responsive, infinite loops can often be interrupted by sending a signal to the process (such as SIGINT in Unix), or an interrupt to the processor, causing the current process to be aborted. This can be done in a task manager, in a terminal with the Control-C command, [9] or by using the kill command or system call.