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  2. pax (command) - Wikipedia

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    pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. [1] Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, the IEEE designed a new archive utility pax that could support various archive formats with useful options from both archivers.

  3. mv (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    Using mv requires the user to have write permission for the directories the file will move between. This is because mv changes the content of both directories (i.e., the source and the target) involved in the move. When using the mv command on files located on the same filesystem, the file's timestamp is not updated.

  4. XZ Utils - Wikipedia

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    Compressed test files had been added to the code for setting up the backdoor via additions to the configure script in the tar files. He started his investigation because "After observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz package)" as he found that ssh logins using sshd were "taking a lot of CPU , valgrind errors". [ 14 ]

  5. List of command-line interpreters - Wikipedia

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    COMMAND.COM, the original Microsoft command line processor introduced on MS-DOS as well as Windows 9x, in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM; cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM introduced on OS/2 and Windows NT systems, although COMMAND.COM is still available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions of those operating systems also.

  6. List of POSIX commands - Wikipedia

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    Compare two files; see also diff Version 1 AT&T UNIX comm: Text processing Mandatory Select or reject lines common to two files Version 4 AT&T UNIX command: Shell programming Mandatory Execute a simple command compress: Filesystem Optional (XSI) Compress data 4.3BSD cp: Filesystem Mandatory Copy files PDP-7 UNIX crontab: Misc Mandatory

  7. find (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    In Unix-like operating systems, find is a command-line utility that locates files based on some user-specified criteria and either prints the pathname of each matched object or, if another action is requested, performs that action on each matched object.

  8. xargs - Wikipedia

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    One might be dealing with commands that can only accept one or maybe two arguments at a time. For example, the diff command operates on two files at a time. The -n option to xargs specifies how many arguments at a time to supply to the given command. The command will be invoked repeatedly until all input is exhausted.

  9. Sparse file - Wikipedia

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    Disadvantages are that sparse files may become fragmented; file system free space reports may be misleading; filling up file systems containing sparse files can have unexpected effects (such as disk-full or quota-exceeded errors when merely overwriting an existing portion of a file that happened to have been sparse); and copying a sparse file with a program that does not explicitly support ...