Unix - Everything I know

​Unix philosophy is to make everything composable with lots of tiny individual programs doing one thing and communicating through text outputs.​
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) (Code) (Rust Code)
​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)​
​Unix Philosophy with an Example (2019) (Lobsters)
​Dark Side Of Posix Apis (2021)​
​Ghosts of Unix Past (HN)
​Evolution of the Unix System Architecture: An Exploratory Case Study (2019)​
​Program design in the UNIX environment (1984) (Lobsters)
​Unix tooling - join, don't extend (2021)​
​Fun with Unix domain sockets​
​Posix Permissions Are Weird (2021)​
​Unix – The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems (1999) (HN)
​Unix and Microservice Platforms (2021) (HN)
​On Unix composability​
​Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century: Make JSON a default output option. (2019) (HN) (Reddit)
​I’m not sure that UNIX won (2021) (Lobsters)
​Unix as IDE (2012)​
​.plan (Lobsters) (HN)
​Why V7 Unix matters so much (2021) (HN)

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