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file is a standard Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file. The original version of file originated in Unix Research Version 4 in 1973. System V saw a major update with several important changes, most notably moving the file type information into an external text file rather than compiling it into the binary itself. All major BSD and Linux distributions use a... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    file (Unix)

    file is a standard Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file. ... The original version of file originated in Unix Research Version 4 in 1973.
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    File format

    File (Unix), a file type identification utility
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    Filename extension

    file (Unix)
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    dd (Unix)

    dd_rhelp first extracts all the readable data, and saves it to a file, inserting zeros where bytes cannot be read. ... List of Unix programs
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    Shebang (Unix)

    In computing, a shebang (also called a hashbang, hashpling, or pound bang) refers to the characters "#!" when they are the first two characters in a script file. ... Unix
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    Directory (file systems)

    The first popular fully general hierarchical filesystem was that of UNIX. ... ↑ "Everything is a File" (Unix System Administration Independent Learning)
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    PWB/UNIX

    The Programmer's Workbench -- A Machine for Software Development October 1977 CACM article about PWB (PDF file) ... PWB distributions, from the Ancient UNIX Archive
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    Hexspeak

    file (Unix)
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    Uuencoding

    Where <mode> is the file's Unix read/write/execute permissions as three octal digits, and <file> is the name to be used when recreating the binary data.
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    Delimiter

    | | End of Field | End of Record | End of File | | Unix (and Mac OS X) | Tab | LF | none |

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