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 Unix Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography - Local Color Art
Most common is the conventional "Unixes", but the culture that created Unix has a penchant for playful use of language, and "Unices" (treating Unix as Latin word) is also popular.
By 1993 most of the commercial vendors of UNIX had changed their commercial variants of UNIX to be based upon SVR4, and many BSD features were added on top.
In 1973, the decision was made to re-write UNIX in the C programming language.
http://www.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/Unix

  
 The SCO Group v
UNIX is a computer operating system program and related software originally developed by ATandT Bell Laboratories (“ATandT”).  SCO/UNIX is a modification of UNIX and related software developed by SCO and its predecessors.  UNIX and SCO/UNIX are widely used in the corporate, or “enterprise,” computing environment.
By way of example, in the personal computing market, Microsoft Windows is the best-known operating system.  The Windows operating system was designed to operate on computer processors (“chips”) built by Intel.  Thus, Windows serves as the link between Intel-based processors and the various software applications that run on personal computers.
From and after September 1995, SCO dedicated significant amounts of funding and a large number of UNIX software engineers, many of whom were original ATandT UNIX software engineers, to upgrading UnixWare for high-performance computing on Intel processors.
http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html

  
 Cat (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among Unix fans, cat(1) is considered an excellent example of user-interface design, because it delivers the file contents without such verbosity as spacing or headers between the files, and because it does not require the files to consist of lines of text, but works with any sort of data.
Among Unix haters, cat(1) is considered the canonical example of bad user-interface design, because of its woefully unobvious name.
It is far more often used to blast a file to standard output than to concatenate two files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)

  
 Table of contents for unix help
On a UNIX system, you can redirect both the source of the input and the destination of the output.
Most of the commands on a UNIX system require input and produce output.
The UNIX operating system was developed by Ken Thompson in 1969 at ATandT Research Division at Bell Laboratories.
http://acad.uis.edu/section1.htm

  
 Unix Tutorial
There are many user interfaces available on the Unix computers, all of which provide similar functionality.
This document was orginally developed by the Campus Computing Organization at Caltech, edited locally to provide a better match to the computing environment at our site.
Partial words can be used and this is one of the few places in Unix where upper and lower case are allowed to match each other.
http://www2.ocean.washington.edu/unix.tutorial.html

  
 Unix Help - Fundamental Unix Concepts - Hyper-Ad Communications
Literally everything in UNIX is a file - all the directories are files, the programs are files, the devices are files.
This program is the "real" UNIX - all the other programs (hundreds, perhaps thousands) are just helper programs that allow us to talk to the computer in something easier to understand than meaningless sequences of 0's and 1's.
We'll use cat as an example program to study the input and output behavior of a typical program.
http://www.hyper-ad.com/unix/essentials/Fundamental_UNIX_Concepts.html

  
 Chapter 5: Unix Basics - Part C
Now that you can move between directories in the Unix filesystem and can view files stored in those directories, you may be wondering how you can list the files stored in a particular directory and manipulate files within the filesystem.
CTRL-D is the end input character in the Unix shell, and signals that you've completed typing input to the currently running command.
Unix offers a wide variety of commands for viewing the contents of files and the output of programs you run.
http://www.oit.duke.edu/unix-manual/5c.html

  
 Peter Scott's Unix Notes: Unix Tools
In Unix, a filter is the term for a command that accepts standard input and alters it in some way before sending it to the standard output.
Part of the Unix philosophy is that each tool should do just one job as well as reasonably possible.
Normally, Unix commands as long and as complex as the one above would not be entered interactively - they would be stored in a file using an editor.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cms/teaching/ps/unix/utools.html

  
 UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful
The forthcoming book referred to is The UNIX Programming Environment, co-written with Brian Kernighan.
The companion paper to this talk is Program Design Design in the UNIX Environment.
The talk reviews reasons for UNIX's popularity and shows, using UCB cat as a primary example, how UNIX has grown fat.
http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html

  
 UNIX man pages : cat ()
cat will not close and reopen standard input when it is referenced in this way, but will accept multiple occurrences of `-' as file.
If no input file is given, cat reads from the stan- dard input file.
Thus: example% cat file prints file on your terminal, and: example% cat file1 file2 >file3 concatenates file1 and file2, and writes the results in file3.
http://www.st.carnet.hr/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cat

  
 How to fix the Unix configuration nightmare
Like previous successful Unix evolutions, it needs to plug into current technology in a way that gives something back to the developer pretty quickly, and make it easy and inviting to be used in both existing and new projects.
However, that front-end is the bit they're keeping closed, so the other Unix systems are going to need to build something free.
It all needs to be language, desktop, distribution and operating system neutral, so as to avoid turning off any potential software developers who might find it useful.
http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/unix-config.html

  
 Unix & Linux System Administration Tech Support & Business Articles from Ask Dave Taylor!
Not only is this a sequel to my best-selling Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours but rather than focus on a single OS, the SysAdmin book simultaneously documents Red Hat Linux, Solaris 8, and the popular Mac OS X system.
Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours from Sams/Macmillan is my latest published book.
What you might not realize, however, if you're a Unix or Linux system administrator, is that you might be part of the problem!
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/cat_unix_linux_system_administration.html

  
 Scripts and Utilities -- Cat/Sort/At/Grep/Find lecture
If input files are specified, then cat copies the input files to standard output.
Like cat, sort is a straightforward program, that sorts files.
If no input files are specified, cat copies standard input to standard output.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/classes/cs494/494/notes/Cat/lecture.html

  
 UNIX man pages : cat ()
Writes bytes from the input file to standard output without delay as each is read.
If you do this, you lose the original data in the input file because the shell truncates it before cat can read it.
-s [Tru64 UNIX] Does not display a message if cat cannot find an input file.
http://www.physics.umn.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cat

  
 Joe's guide to UNIX (or UNIX-like) Operating Systems.
However, it might be useful if the standard input is something like a barcode reader, where you want to have the standard input written to the screen (like the barcode appears on various cash registers briefly when an item is scanned).
This document is intended be a brief but strong introduction to using UNIX or UNIX-Like Operating systems.
Admittedly it is written with a focus on individuals using these OS's on their personal computers.
http://www.hamsterbay.com/current/os.html

  
 [No title]
Program = ORDERSCR, Program version = 450, HTTP Server = Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat, Return code = 999, Date and Time = 2003/12/24 00:42, Internal Errors = The site configuration has been updated by the shop operator while you are checking out.
Program = ORDERSCR, Program version = 450, HTTP Server = Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat, Return code = 999, Date and Time = 2003/12/22 08:53, Internal Errors = The site configuration has been updated by the shop operator while you are checking out.
No such file or directory Program = ORDERSCR, Program version = 450, HTTP Server = Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat, Return code = 999, Date and Time = 2003/11/22 08:53, Internal Errors = The site configuration has been updated by the shop operator while you are checking out.
http://webplus.microxs.co.uk/acatalog/error.err

  
 Basics of UNIX
It might be a good idea to move a file/subdirectory into a subdirectory and remove it later.
This command has very many options and to understand them you need to know some basics of UNIX filesystems.
On UNIX systems usually you CANNOT recover deleted files therefore use
http://www.yes-but.net/unix_basics.html

  
 Basic Unix Commands
This is useful in checking a file to be sure that it is text before you "cat" it out ( using "cat" on binary files can be a bummer).
Say you want file1 and file2 to be all together in one file named file3.
If file1 is first, then "cat file1 file2 > file3" will produce the correct file3.
http://www.emba.uvm.edu/CF/basic.html

  
 Quick Unix Tutorial
cat cat(1) concatenate and display files (To view files, create files, append to files and combine files)
cat > file create file (reads form terminal; terminate input with ^D) cat >> file append to file (reads form terminal; terminate input with ^D) cat file2 >> file1 appends contents of file2 to file1
http://unlser1.unl.csi.cuny.edu/tutorials/QuickUnixTutorial.html

  
 UNIX Shell Programming
As another example, I have some software that runs on UNIX that I distribute and people were having trouble unpacking the software and getting it running.
The first class taught how to use the basic UNIX commands (like sed, grep and find) and this class teaches how to combine these tools to accomplish bigger tasks.
It is used to capture the output of a UNIX utility
http://users.sdsc.edu/~steube/Bshell

  
 Apple - Mac OS X
Breakthrough search technology, stunning graphics and media, unparalleled connectivity, an intuitive user interface and a virtual toolbox chock full of cleverly integrated features — all atop a rock-solid UNIX foundation — give you the most innovative, stable and compatible desktop operating system on the planet.
VoiceOver and Universal Access assist people who have difficulty using a computer, while Mac OS X for the Family gives parents greater control over how their kids use the Mac.
Tiger introduces Spotlight, the lightning-fast search technology that illuminates every corner of your Mac, displaying results as fast as you type.
http://www.apple.com/macosx

  
 Learn more about List of computing topics in the online encyclopedia.
Unicode -- Unicon -- Unix -- Unix shell -- UnLambda -- USB --
http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/l/li/list_of_computing_topics.html

  
 List_of_computing_topics - Computers - Find What You're Looking For
UAT -- Unicode -- Unicon -- Unix -- Unix shell -- UnLambda -- USB --
http://computers.mysic.org/List_of_computing_topics

  
 Viewing Files with cat -- Unix User's Guide
Next: Viewing Files with more and less Prev: Changing File Permissions with chmod Up: Unix File System Commands Top: Main Menu
See Redirecting Input and Output, for some other interesting uses of
Viewing Files with cat -- Unix User's Guide
http://cs-www.bu.edu/help/unix/viewing_files_with_cat.html

  
 Linux 2.6.6 - voyager_cat - Linux / Unix Web Site Sources
CDEBUG(("VOYAGER CAT: cat_shiftout failed to return header 0x%x != 0x%x\n", input, header));
Linux 2.6.6 - voyager_cat - Linux / Unix Web Site Sources
* This file contains all the logic for manipulating the CAT bus
http://www.kernel-websource.com/linux266/source-voyager_cat.htm

  
 Rosetta Stone for Unix
An early DEC Unix, superceded by Digital Unix (now Tru64).
UnixGuide.net has a similar table covering fewer Unix versions and a somewhat different set of tasks.
In System V-based Unixes, run level relates to booting, shutdown, and single-user mode.
http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

  
 Linux and UNIX cat command help
See Download Page for complete listing of available software.
cat file1.txt file2.txt > file3.txt - Reads file1.txt and file2.txt and combines those files to make file3.txt.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucat.htm

  
 cat
CAT also stands for Computed Axial (or Assisted) Topography-see Cat Scan.
Cats can also produce a purring noise, in the presence of their humans, that is immensely pleasurable to many humans.
'''Cat''' is also a commonly used short form for catamaran.
http://www.mycatcenter.com/cat2.htm

  
 UNIX Tutorial Three
In UNIX, we can redirect both the input and the output of commands.
Most processes initiated by UNIX commands write to the standard output (that is, they write to the terminal screen), and many take their input from the standard input (that is, they read it from the keyboard).
There is also the standard error, where processes write their error messages, by default, to the terminal screen.
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix3.html

  
 macosxhints - Merge MP3 files with the Unix command cat
Merge MP3 files with the Unix command cat - Authored by: c8h10n4o2 on Thu, Feb 12 '04 at 12:10PM
Merge MP3 files with the Unix command cat
I know that cat also works with text files, but what other file types can be merged by simply using cat and still remain usable (e.g., movie files, etc.) If anyone knows about this I'm very curious.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040205164724481

  
 Sending email with a text message and an attachment from standard UNIX.
The following is for instructional purposes and provides a solution to UNIX's mail not directly providing for attachments.
The example below has been tested on AIX (Korn Shell) and may be different on other flavors of UNIX.
The example sends a report file (unix_attachment.lst) as an attachment.
http://www.uaex.edu/bknox/email_with_attachment.htm

  
 UNIX Basic commands: cat
The operator > can be used to combine multiple files into one.
The cat command reads one or more files and prints them to standard output.
We are not responsible for any loss or liability incurred by using this information.
http://www.techonthenet.com/unix/basic/cat.htm

  
 UNIX to Plan 9 command translation (Changelog)
The following list of some UNIX commands, which you can emulate in Plan 9 system:
Some are new programs for old jobs: programs like ls, cat, and who have familiar names and functions but are new, simpler implementations.
Who, for example, is a shell script, while ps is just 95 lines of C code.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/55/diff.html

  
 NACSE - Unix 15.B: The cat Command
file when you worked through the email section, Unix should display your email address.
If you have done as told and created a.
Because the entire file will flash on the screen with
http://www.nacse.org/unix-tutorial/util-cat.html

  
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 The UNIX Forums - Problem with cat
- UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users ( http://www.unix.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7)
when I do a cat sample.txt the O/P is exactly as above but when I do a echo `cat sample.txt` the O/P changes to
Why is this happenning and what should I do to get the O/P from echo `cat sample.txt` to display as cat sample.txt
http://www.unix.com/printthread.php?t=3995

  
 Native Win32 ports of some GNU utilities
Windows Services for UNIX, integrates the Interix subsystem:
Last change on 30-04-04 by Karl M. Syring (bug reports are welcome)
Spybot search and destroy - Get rid of annoying spyware:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net

  
 UNIX Lab 5
cat > red.out #redirect stderr to stdout, pipe it into red.out prompt#>red5 prompt#>cat red.out cat: abc: No such file or directory #our error message ---------------------------------------------------------------- A shell script to add a line to an already existing file.
FILE=${DIR}/temp echo "This was an empty file" >>${FILE} p-danzig-2.jct.ac.il:~/unix_programming/lab5 % touch temp p-danzig-2.jct.ac.il:~/unix_programming/lab5 % cat temp p-danzig-2.jct.ac.il:~/unix_programming/lab5 %./example1 /usr/u/jctstaff/danzig/unix_programming/lab5 p-danzig-2.jct.ac.il:~/unix_programming/lab5 % cat temp This was an empty file ---------------------------------------------------------------- A shell script which demonstrates parsing a command line for flags in any order using the shift command.
prompt#> cat perl1.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -w # print crypt($ARGV[0],"salt") Here I call the program from my home directory.
http://www.koheles.com/unix_class/Lab5.html

  
 Unix command 'cat' [rec.humor.funny]
While dishing up canned food for my pet, I realized the other meaning of `cat`; besides 'catenate', it refers to something where what comes out looks just like what went in.
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/93q3/catunix.html

  
 dBforums - question about cat command
I think I can do this with cat.
>>>I think I can do this with cat.
> I think I can do this with cat.
http://dbforums.com/t406974.html

  
 Unix Demo: cat displays file contents
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http://www.december.com/unix/demo/cat.html

  
 UNIX Commands - A Short List
cat Personal/form.txt Back to Index command options argument ------- ------- -------- cc -c,o filename(s).c (or.o) compiles c programme(s) contained in 'filename.c(or.o)', and generates an executable file, usually called a.out e.g.
cancel 96 stops printing job ID 96 Back to Index command options argument ------- ------- -------- cat - filename(s) dump contents of file(s) to screen e.g.
cancel cat lp lpr lpstat nroff pg pr
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Embnetut/Universl/unixcmds.html

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