Everything about File (command)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: File (command)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A study on command block collection and restoration techniques through detection of project file manipulation on engineering workstation of industrial control systemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Windows PowerShellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Sequence File Format Conversion with Command‐Line ReadseqCited 29 times
5. Go sideways: UnameA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Tar (computing)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Sequence File Format Conversion with Command‐Line Readseq

  Don Gilbert · 2003 · Current Protocols in Bioinformatics · 29 citations

• TheUNIXSystem: File Security and theUNIXSystem Crypt Command

  J. A. Reeds, P. J. Weinberger · 1984 · AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal · 7 citations

• Using the File Command to Produce Formatted Output for other Applications

  Emma Slaymaker · 2005 · The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · 2 citations

• CLIFF: A command-line file specification front-end to unix programs. Application to AMBER 4

  Øyvind Edvardsen · 1994 · Computers & Chemistry · 1 citations

• Design and Development of a Command-line Tool for Portable Executable File Analysis and Malware Detection in IoT Devices

  June Ho Yang, Yeonseung Ryu · 2015 · International Journal of Security and Its Applications · 1 citations

• Tbl2KnownGene: A command-line program to convert NCBI.tbl to UCSC knownGene.txt data file

  Department of Biology, Indiana State University, 200 North Seventh Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809, U.S.A, Yongsheng Bai · 2014 · Bioinformation · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A study on command block collection and restoration techniques through detection of project file manipulation on engineering workstation of industrial control system

  Jiho Shin, Hyunpyo Choi, Jung Taek Seo · 2022 · Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Windows PowerShellLee Holmes · 2008
• Exploring MacintoshKen Abernethy · 1989
• Essential PowerShellHolger Schwichtenberg · 2008
• Windows 7 and Vista guide to scripting, automation, and command line toolsBrian Knittel · 2011
• The complete HyperCard handbookDanny Goodman · 1987
• Command & Conquer (tm)Keith R. A. DeCandido · 2007
• Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of LunchesDonald W. Jones, Jeffrey Hicks · 2017
• The CP/M handbook with mp/mRodnay Zaks · 1980

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