UNIX for super-users
by Eric Foxley · first published 1985
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…command options, in line with the guideline in the Single Unix Specification. (I actually picked such ideas up many years ago, before the first POSIX specification, from a book by Eric Foxley titled Unix for Super Users, where there was an appendix on command line option syntax.) * http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_... Of course, if the user wants to use the number of cores available, then…
on “Using Unix as an IDE (2012)” ↗…to the cp command albeit mostly limited to programs that use getopt/popt for their argument parsing, is described all over the place. I first encountered it in a book, written by Eric Foxley, entitled UNIX for Super-Users and published in 1985. * It's perennially asked about on Unix and Linux Stack Exchange, ranging from https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/11376/5132 almost a decade ago to https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/570729/5132…
on “Bash Pitfalls” ↗I have a book on my bookshelf, Eric Foxley's Unix for Super-Users. It was published in 1985, and it answers this question on page 52, the first page listed for the entry 'lost+found' in its index. This is surely not the earliest book mention, is it? (It'll be in…
on “What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?” ↗Foxleys book does not actually claim reason why it need to be preallocated. I've got the book also. Index mentions fsck only page 52, where it reads: "52 UNIX FOR SUPER-USERS ... The filestore consistency check is performed by the command fsck (usu- ally stored as /etc/fsck, but sometimes in /bin), which should be used to check all discs used as file-systems. It defaults…
on “What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?” ↗