dig

network administration command-line tool
CreativeWork command_line_tool Q285726
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dig

Summary

dig is a command-line tool[1]. dig draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (command_line_tool category, ranking #3 of 10).[2]

Key Facts

  • dig's field of work was Domain Name Server[3].
  • dig's image is recorded as DiG 9.18.1 screenshot.png[4].
  • dig's instance of is recorded as command-line tool[5].
  • dig's instance of is recorded as system tool[6].
  • dig's operating system is recorded as cross-platform[7].
  • dig's part of is recorded as BIND[8].
  • dig's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/026b00g[9].
  • dig's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03647300n[10].
  • dig's Gentoo package is recorded as net-dns/bind-tools[11].
  • dig's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 16654397[12].
  • dig's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C16654397[13].

Body

Publication

dig's part of is recorded as BIND[8].

Why It Matters

dig draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (command_line_tool category, ranking #3 of 10).[2] dig has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] dig is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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