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In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname of each matched object or, if another action is requested, performs that action on each matched object.
NetHack, a primordial Unix game. Linux gaming started largely as an extension of the already present Unix gaming scene, [1] which dates back to that system's conception in 1969 with the game Space Travel [2] [3] [self-published source?] and the first edition in 1971, [4] with both systems sharing many similar titles.
Larn is a roguelike video game written by Noah Morgan in 1986 for the UNIX operating system.Morgan's original version of Larn remains part of the NetBSD games collection. [1]It can take many hours and tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of game turns to beat other roguelikes, such as NetHack or Ancient Domains of Mystery, [2] but Larn can reasonably be completed in one play session.
The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman with later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based minicomputer systems as a freely distributed executable.
locate is a Unix utility which serves to find files on filesystems. It searches through a prebuilt database of files generated by the updatedb command or by a daemon and compressed using incremental encoding. It operates significantly faster than find, but requires regular updating of the database.
Don Kneller ported the game to MS-DOS and continued development there. [5] Development on all Hack versions ended within a few years. Hack descendant NetHack was released in 1987. [6] [7] Hack is still available for Unix, and is distributed alongside many modern Unix-like OSes, [5] including Debian, Ubuntu, the BSDs, [5] Fedora, [8] and others.
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such as devices that use magnetic tape.