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Everything is a file

Known as: Everything's a file 
"Everything is a file" describes one of the defining features of Unix, and its derivatives — that a wide range of input/output resources such as… 
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2019
2019
Everything Is a File
  • David Both
  • Using and Administering Linux: Volume 2
  • 2019
  • Corpus ID: 69827855
The whole point with "everything is a file" is … the fact that you can use common tools to operate on different things. 
2019
2019
Racialized Appetites in Four Girls at Cottage City, Malinda Russell's Domestic Cook Book, and Southern Soufflé
  • M. Mann
  • Reckoning with Appetite
  • 2019
  • Corpus ID: 202369009
Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins’ novel Four Girls at Cottage City (1898), Malinda Russell’s Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
The Complications of State-Building: Reevaluating the Role of Britain in the Creation of Iraq
When the defunct Ottoman Empire’s Middle-Eastern territory was divided by Britain and France in the early 1920s as League of… 
2012
2012
April 5, 2012 -- Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Grateful Dead
2010
2010
The Future of Elder Law Practice
2010
2010
PAM root 300 setgid setuid exec bash joe
Login daemons require the ability to switch to the userid of any user who may legitimately log in. Linux provides neither a fine… 
2009
2009
“Thanks For Everything, Poteat!”: An Intellectual (But Personal) Autobiography
2008
2008
"Sans Everything" : le néant dans le théâtre de William Shakespeare
This thesis analyses the way Shakespeare creates an experience of nothingness in his theater from a literary and philosophical… 
2007
2007
Only Everything I Know
  • L. Kim
  • 2007
  • Corpus ID: 147242914
2007
2007
A Comparison of Service Oriented Architecture with other advances in Software Architectures
ion SOA extends the concept of abstraction and encapsulation. Unlike in OO which hides internal details (data and methods), SOA… 
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