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.
/dev/ttyis a synonym for the controlling terminal (if any) of the current process.
- 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)
- Unix Considered Harmful
- Time on Unix (2020)
- The Deprecated nix API (2020) (Lobsters)
- Bell Labs Employee List
- The beauty of Unix pipelines (2020) (HN)
- Relational pipes - Open data format designed for streaming structured data between two processes.
- Is Sudo Almost Useless? (2020) (HN)
- tildeverse - Loose association of like-minded tilde communities. (tilde news)
- SDF Public Access UNIX System
- Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
- Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation (2020) (HN)
- Pipe is a thing (2020)
- The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994)
- When Unix learned to reboot(2) (2020) (Lobsters)
- Modular Synthesis and UNIX (2020) (HN) (Lobsters)
- Cron Helper - Cron syntax for us humans.
- File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness (2020) (HN)
- History of UNIX Design and Interfaces
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (Lobsters)
- Hurd, seL4, thoughts (Lobsters)
- Advanced Editing on Unix (Kernighan)
- The UNIX Time-Sharing System (1974) (HN)
- Web version of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition