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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix

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    Both, David, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Apress, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4842-3729-8

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    Both, David, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Apress, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4842-3729-8

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    The Linux Foundation maintains documents defining many Linux standards. It also sponsors the work of Linus Torvalds.

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    Both, David, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Apress, 2018, 132, ISBN 978-1-4842-3729-8

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    Wikipedia, Plain text, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text

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    Early Unix systems had very little memory compared to today’s systems, so saving a few bytes in a name was important. Unix and Linux are case sensitive, so an extra keystroke to hit the shift key was extra work.

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    Your host must have a mail transfer agent (MTA) such as Sendmail installed and running. The /etc/aliases file must have an entry to send root’s e-mail to your e-mail address.

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Both, D. (2020). The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins. In: Using and Administering Linux: Volume 1. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5049-5_3

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