Unixy

comparative more Unixy · superlative most Unixy

1. informalcomputingCharacteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.

   On the other hand, since dotfiles are a Unixy concept, we're not that concerned.

   2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl

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   Thing is, all that Unixy stuff is still there; you just can't see it. OS X manages to hide the files from view...

   2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple Hacks

   After all, if you want a listing of your local directory, you could use just plain ls (or any reasonable non-Unixy equivalent).

   2008, C Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W Fitzpatrick, Version Control with Subversion

   Synonyms: Unixish, Unix-like, Unixoid