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It accepted command-line parameters for the cm (cursor addressing) capability, and recognized terminfo capability names. System V Release 3 provided an improved version which combined the different initialization capabilities as a new option init , and the reset capabilities as reset , thereby simplifying use of tput for initializing or ...
When installing a package on a Unix or Unix-like environment, a configure script is a shell script that generates build configuration files for a codebase to facilitate cross-platform support. It generates files tailoring for the host system – the environment on which the codebase is built and run.
Support for command history means that a user can recall a previous command into the command-line editor and edit it before issuing the potentially modified command. Shells that support completion may also be able to directly complete the command from the command history given a partial/initial part of the previous command.
systemd is a system and service manager for Linux operating systems. systemctl is a command to introspect and control the state of the systemd system and service manager. Not to be confused with sysctl. systemd-analyze may be used to determine system boot-up performance statistics and retrieve other state and tracing information from the system ...
YaST (Yet another Setup Tool [4]) is a Linux operating system setup and configuration tool. YaST is featured in the openSUSE Linux distribution, as well as in SUSE's derived commercial distributions. It is also part of the defunct United Linux. YaST features tools that can configure many aspects of the system. YaST was released first in April 1995.
The concept of a job maps the (shell) concept of a single shell command to the (operating system) concept of the possibly many processes that the command entails. Multi-process tasks come about because processes may create additional child processes, and a single shell command may consist of a pipeline of multiple communicating processes.
tip is a Unix utility for establishing a terminal connection to a remote system via a modem. [1] It is commonly associated with BSD Unix, as well as other UNIX operating systems such as Sun's Solaris. It was originally included with 4.2BSD.
A common example is the use of toolsets to break out of a chroot or jail in UNIX-like operating systems [3] or bypassing digital rights management (DRM). In the former case, it allows the user to see files outside of the filesystem that the administrator intends to make available to the application or user in question. In the context of DRM ...