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• Basename basename is a shell command for extracting the last name of a file path. The command was introduced in X/Open Portability Guidelines issue 2 of 1987. It…
• Wc (Unix) wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and operating systems that are Unix-like. The program reads either standard input or a…
• Uniq uniq is a utility command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems which, when fed a text file or standard input, outputs the text with…
• Ln (Unix) ln is a shell command for creating a link file to an existing file or directory. By default, the command creates a hard link, but with the -s command line…
• Chown chown /ˈtʃoʊn/, short for change owner, is a shell command for changing the owning user of Unix-based file system files – including special files such…
• Nl (Unix) nl is a Unix utility for numbering lines, either from a file or from standard input, reproducing output on standard output. nl is part of the X/Open Portability…
• Path (computing) A path (or filepath, file path, pathname, or similar) is a string that uniquely identifies an item in a hierarchical file system. Generally, a path is…
• Xargs xargs (short for "extended arguments") is a command on Unix and most Unix-like operating systems used to build and execute commands from standard input…