Unix is pretty amazing for many things.

I mostly love its philosophy of making small composable tools that do one thing and do it well.

Notes

• /dev/tty is a synonym for the controlling terminal (if any) of the current process.

Links

• ​Shell scripts and tools​

• ​Stream editing​

• ​AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System - Awesome lookback on history of UNIX.

• ​cicada - Simple Unix shell written in Rust.

• ​Test your sysadmin skills​

• ​The History of Unix, Rob Pike (2018)​

• ​For the Love of Pipes (2019) (HN)

• ​VCF East 2019 -- Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson (2019)​

• ​Awesome UNIX - All the UNIX and UNIX-Like: Linux, BSD, macOS, Illumos, 9front, and more.

• ​How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer (2019)​

• ​Unix Toolbox - Collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. (HN)

• ​Using ptrace To Call a Userspace Function​

• ​EOF is not a character (2020) (HN)

• ​How are Unix pipes implemented? (2020)​

• ​Unix Considered Harmful​

• ​Time on Unix (2020)​

• ​The Deprecated nix API (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Bell Labs Employee List​

• ​The beauty of Unix pipelines (2020) (HN)

• ​Relational pipes - Open data format designed for streaming structured data between two processes.

• ​Is Sudo Almost Useless? (2020) (HN)

• ​tildeverse - Loose association of like-minded tilde communities. (tilde news)

• ​SDF Public Access UNIX System​

• ​Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation​

• ​Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation (2020) (HN)

• ​Pipe is a thing (2020)​

• ​The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994)​

• ​When Unix learned to reboot(2) (2020) (Lobsters)

• ​Modular Synthesis and UNIX (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)

• ​Cron Helper - Cron syntax for us humans.

• ​File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness (2020) (HN)

• ​History of UNIX Design and Interfaces​

• ​Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Lobsters)

• ​Hurd, seL4, thoughts (Lobsters)

• ​Advanced Editing on Unix (Kernighan)​

• ​The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) (HN)

• ​Web version of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition​

• ​Cronie - Standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools.

• ​Unix Recovery Legend (1986) (HN)

• ​Unix History Repository - Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today.

• ​Chain loading, not preloading: the dynamic linker as a virtualization vector (2021)​

• ​USENIX - Advanced Computing Systems Association.

• ​Supervisor - Client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. (Docs)

• ​Ask HN: What are the bad parts of Unix? (2021)​

• ​Detailed Behaviors of Unix Signal (2021)​