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Command/Syntax What it will do awk/nawk [options] file scan for patterns in a file and process the results cat [options] file concatenate (list) a file cd [directory] change directory chgrp [options] group file change the group of the file chmod [options] file change file or directory access permissions chown [options] owner file change the ownership of a file; can only be done by the superuser chsh (passwd -e/-s) username login_shell change the user's login shell (often only by the superuser) cmp [options] file1 file2 compare two files and list where differences occur (text or binary files) compress [options] file compress file and save it as file.Z cp [options] file1 file2 copy file1 into file2; file2 shouldn't already exist. This command creates or overwrites file2. cut (options) [file(s)] cut specified field(s)/character(s) from lines in file(s) date [options] report the current date and time dd [if=infile] [of=outfile] [operand=value] copy a file, converting between ASCII and EBCDIC or swapping byte order, as specified diff [options] file1 file2 compare the two files and display the differences (text files only) df [options] [resource] report the summary of disk blocks and inodes free and in use du [options] [directory or file] report amount of disk space in use echo [text string] echo the text string to stdout ed or ex [options] file Unix line editors emacs [options] file full-screen editor expr arguments evaluate the arguments. Used to do arithmetic, etc. in the shell. file [options] file classify the file type find directory [options] [actions] find files matching a type or pattern finger [options] user[@hostname] report information about users on local and remote machines ftp [options] host transfer file(s) using file transfer protocol grep [options] 'search string' argument egrep [options] 'search string' argument fgrep [options] 'search string' argument search the argument (in this case probably a file) for all occurrences of the search string, and list them. gzip [options] file gunzip [options] file zcat [options] file compress or uncompress a file. Compressed files are stored with a .gz ending head [-number] file display the first 10 (or number of) lines of a file hostname display or set (super-user only) the name of the current machine kill [options] [-SIGNAL] [pid#] [%job] send a signal to the process with the process id number (pid#) or job control number (%n). The default signal is to kill the process. ln [options] source_file target link the source_file to the target lpq [options] lpstat [options] show the status of print jobs lpr [options] file lp [options] file print to defined printer lprm [options] cancel [options] remove a print job from the print queue ls [options] [directory or file] list directory contents or file permissions mail [options] [user] mailx [options] [user] Mail [options] [user] simple email utility available on Unix systems. Type a period as the first character on a new line to send message out, question mark for help. man [options] command show the manual (man) page for a command mkdir [options] directory make a directory more [options] file less [options] file pg [options] file page through a text file mv [options] file1 file2 move file1 into file2 od [options] file octal dump a binary file, in octal, ASCII, hex, decimal, or character mode. passwd [options] set or change your password paste [options] file paste field(s) onto the lines in file pr [options] file filter the file and print it on the terminal ps [options] show status of active processes pwd print working (current) directory rcp [options] hostname remotely copy files from this machine to another machine rlogin [options] hostname login remotely to another machine rm [options] file remove (delete) a file or directory (-r recursively deletes the directory and its contents) (-i prompts before removing files) rmdir [options] directory remove a directory rsh [options] hostname remote shell to run on another machine script file saves everything that appears on the screen to file until exit is executed sed [options] file stream editor for editing files from a script or from the command line sort [options] file sort the lines of the file according to the options chosen source file . file read commands from the file and execute them in the current shell. source: C shell, .: Bourne shell. strings [options] file report any sequence of 4 or more printable characters ending in <NL> or <NULL>. Usually used to search binary files for ASCII strings. stty [options] set or display terminal control options tail [options] file display the last few lines (or parts) of a file tar key[options] [file(s)] tape archiver--refer to man pages for details on creating, listing, and retrieving from archive files. Tar files can be stored on tape or disk. tee [options] file copy stdout to one or more files telnet [host [port]] communicate with another host using telnet protocol touch [options] [date] file create an empty file, or update the access time of an existing file tr [options] string1 string2 translate the characters in string1 from stdin into those in string2 in stdout uncompress file.Z uncompress file.Z and save it as a file uniq [options] file remove repeated lines in a file uudecode [file] decode a uuencoded file, recreating the original file uuencode [file] new_name encode binary file to 7-bit ASCII, useful when sending via email, to be decoded as new_name at destination vi [options] file visual, full-screen editor wc [options] [file(s)] display word (or character or line) count for file(s) whereis [options] command report the binary, source, and man page locations for the command named which command reports the path to the command or the shell alias in use who or w report who is logged in and what processes are running zcat file.Z concatenate (list) uncompressed file to screen, leaving file compressed on disk
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