IEEE standard for information technology
Subtitle: portable operating system interface (POSIX) : part 2, shell and utilities
By: sponsor, Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application Environments of the IEEE Computer Society.
Contributors: IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Operating Systems.; IEEE Standards Board.; American National Standards Institute.
Series: IEEE Std -- 1003.2-1992.; IEEE std -- 1003.2-1992.
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Inst of Elect & Electronic
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1195
Subjects: Operating systems (Computers) -- Standards -- United States.; Utilities (Computer programs) -- Standards -- United States.; Software compatibility -- Standards -- United States.
Other titles: Portable operating system interface.; POSIX.; Shell and utilities.
Notes: "IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (includes IEEE Std 1003.2a-1992)."

"Approved September 17, 1992, IEEE Standards Board."

"Approved April 5, 1993, American National Standards Institute."

"The primary purpose of this standard is to define a standard interface and environment for application programs that require the services of a 'shell' command language interpreter and a set of common utility programs"--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 751-754) and indexes.