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List of POSIX-certified operating systems?
Where can I find a list of POSIX-certified operating systems?
The official list contains just six entries.
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Unicode-based POSIX tools (other than Cygwin) for Windows?
GNU Win32 and MSYS are awesome, but it seems like all of their tools use the ANSI version of the Windows API, rather than the Unicode versions.
Obviously, those are meant for Windows 95 and 98, not ...
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If SUS exists then why there's also POSIX? [closed]
We know that to define whether the system is Unix or not there's a Single UNIX Specification(SUS) which is held by OpenGroup. Then why there's another certification as POSIX? Are these things the ...
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Does Unix stand for any POSIX-compilant system?
When someone is saying "Unix" does it mean that it can be every POSIX-compatible system including linux distributives, solaris, freebsd etc?
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What does it mean to have a POSIX-compilant operating system?
What does it mean if the operating system is said to be POSIX-compilant?
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MacOS command-line - possible to write portable scripts across MacOS and Linux?
I've been mostly pleased with MacOS as a dev platform, and it's somewhat similar to a linux command-line, but there are a number of notable exceptions:
all commands: arguments parsing behavior ...
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less is more? Is more less? I'm so confused
When I first heard their names, I got really confused when I tried to guess what these tools might do, I thought I'd misheard something.
What's the difference between more and less, i.e. why ...
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Is the old pre-XP Windows NT POSIX subsystem binary compatible with Interix?
Before Windows XP and before Interix, Windows NT had a POSIX subsystem essentially do to the same job now done by Interix.
Was that subsystem binary compatible with Interix? Could I run POSIX ...
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How to copy file into an incrementally numbered dir?
For instance, if there is dir 3:
mkdir 4; cp file 4
The dir could also be called 3 other text. Still no text needs to be in mkdir 4 besides the incremented number. The highest number needs to be ...
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Why do we use ./progname in *nix systems to execute a program?
I've been using Linux & Mac for sometime now and I always wonder - Why do we have to execute a program like ./progname . I know Unix treats every thing as a file and it stores the filename in a ...
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How to list dirs containg a file?
I'm trying to use find to list dirs with a certain file inside, but my dirs have spaces so I haven't found a solution.
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What is The POSIX standard?
In plain and simple terms, what is the posix standard and why does it matter? Also if I have two systems that are 100% posix compatible, would code compiled for one work on the other without a ...
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PC multi-core architecture, scheduling of cores access to system memory
My office computer has 8 cores. I recently upgraded the system from 4Gb of RAM (in two modules) to 24Gb of RAM (in six modules) and noticed a considerable increase in performance when multiple cores ...
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Standard way to duplicate a file's permissions
I am trying to find a standard POSIX way to duplicate one file's permissions to another file. On a GNU system this is easy:
[alexmchale@bullfrog ~]$ ls -l hardcopy.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexmchale users ...
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Difference between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash [closed]
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Differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash
What is the difference between /usr/bin/login, and /usr/bin/bash? Does the first command something more, or ...
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Differences between /usr/bin/login and /usr/bin/bash
Terminal.app has the setting "Shells open with:" with the option "Default login shell (/usr/bin/login)", and "Command (complete path)" that by default contains "/usr/bin/bash". The dafault option for ...
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Permissions issue Mac OS X Client -> Mac OS X Server
I can't get access to a folder on our server and can't understand why. Perhaps someone will see what I'm overlooking...
Trouble accessing /Library/Subdirectory/NextDirectory/
User joe can ssh to the ...
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Linux / Perl - What happens when a process is forked?
I've read about fork and from what I understand, the process is cloned but which process? The script itself or the process that launched the script?
For example:
I'm running rTorrent on my machine ...
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Folder where bash script resides when running via ln -s
In /usr/local/bin I have a 'ln -s' to /usr/local/foo/bash.script, and in this latter script I want to know the current /usr/local/foo directory, so that I can run a secondary script from that folder.
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Is there a POSIX pathname that can't name a file?
Are there any legal paths in POSIX that cannot be associated with a file, regular or irregular? That is, for which test -e "$LEGITIMATEPOSIXPATHNAME" cannot succeed?
Clarification #1: pathnames
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