Unixy

Pronunciation

Origin

Unix + -y

Full definition of Unixy

Adjective

1. (computing, informal) Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix.
• 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming PerlOn the other hand, since dotfiles are a Unixy concept, we're not that concerned.
• 2008, Chris Seibold, Big Book of Apple HacksThing is, all that Unixy stuff is still there; you just can't see it. OS X manages to hide the files from view...
• 2008, C Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W Fitzpatrick, Version Control with SubversionAfter all, if you want a listing of your local directory, you could use just plain ls (or any reasonable non-Unixy equivalent).