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May 22, 2025 · Single UNIX Specification- “The Standard” The Single UNIX Specification is the standard in which the core interfaces of a UNIX OS are measured. The UNIX standard includes a rich feature …
What are the special dollar sign shell variables? - Stack Overflow
Sep 14, 2012 · In Bash, there appear to be several variables which hold special, consistently-meaning values. For instance, ./myprogram &; echo $! will return the PID of the process which …
unix - Why is 1/1/1970 the "epoch time"? - Stack Overflow
Jun 23, 2011 · The definition of unix time and the epoch date went through a couple of changes before stabilizing on what it is now. But it does not say why exactly 1/1/1970 was chosen in the end.
What does the line "#!/bin/sh" mean in a UNIX shell script?
Sep 10, 2011 · When you try to execute a program in unix (one with the executable bit set), the operating system will look at the first few bytes of the file. These form the so-called "magic number", …
How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF)
Apr 10, 2010 · How can I programmatically (not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix newlines? The dos2unix and unix2dos commands are not available on certain systems. How can I …
Converting unix time into date-time via excel - Stack Overflow
Explanation Unix system represent a point in time as a number. Specifically the number of seconds* since a zero-time called the Unix epoch which is 1/1/1970 00:00 UTC/GMT. This number of seconds …
How can I convert a Unix timestamp to DateTime and vice versa?
Oct 30, 2008 · A Unix tick is 1 second (if I remember well), and a .NET tick is 100 nanoseconds. If you've been encountering problems with nanoseconds, you might want to try using AddTick …
How to get the unix timestamp in C# - Stack Overflow
Jan 1, 2001 · I have had look around stackoverflow, and even looked at some of the suggested questions and none seem to answer, how do you get a unix timestamp in C#?
unix - How can I pretty-print JSON in a shell script? - Stack Overflow
Dec 9, 2008 · json unix command-line format pretty-print edited Oct 6, 2021 at 8:31 community wiki 17 revs, 13 users 24% AnC
Converting Unix timestamp string to readable date - Stack Overflow
I have a string representing a Unix timestamp (i.e. "1284101485") in Python, and I'd like to convert it to a readable date. When I use time.strftime, I get TypeError: import time print time.