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)​