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UNIX / LINUX OVERVIEW
Below is a listing of each of the Unix / Linux commands currently listed on Computer Hope and a brief explanation of what each of the commands do. The following commands are all the Unix / Linux commands, which means not all the below commands will work in your distribution of Unix / Linux and may also not work because of your privileges.
COMMAND : DESCRIPTION
a2p
Creates a Perl script from an awk script.
alias
Create a name for another command or long command string.
ac
Prints statistics about users' connect time.
ar
Maintain portable archive or library.
arch
Display the architecture of the current host.
as
An assembler.
at
Command scheduler.
awk
Awk script processing program.
basename
Deletes any specified prefix from a string.
bash
Command Bourne interpreter
bc
Calculator.
bdiff
Compare large files.
bfs
Editor for large files.
bg
Continues a program running in the background.
biff
Enable / disable incoming mail notifications.
break
Break out of while, for, foreach, or until loop.
bs
Battleship game.
bye
Alias often used for the exit command.
cal
Calendar
calendar
Display appointments and reminders.
cancel
Cancels a print job.
cat
View and/or modify a file.
cc
C compiler.
cd
Change directory.
chdir
Change directory.
checkeq
Language processors to assist in describing equations.
checknr
Check nroff and troff files for any errors.
chfn
Modify your own information or if super user or root modify another users information.
chgrp
Change a groups access to a file or directory.
chkey
Change the secure RPC key pair.
chmod
Change the permission of a file.
chown
Change the ownership of a file.
chsh
Change login shell.
cksum
Display and calculate a CRC for files.
clear
Clears screen.
cls
Alias often used to clear a screen.
cmp
Compare files.
col
Reverse line-feeds filter.
comm
Compare files and select or reject lines that are common.
compress
Compress files on a computer.
continue
Break out of while, for, foreach, or until loop.
copy
Copy files.
cp
Copy files.
cpio
Creates archived CPIO files.
crontab
Create and list files that you wish to run on a regular schedule.
csh
Execute the C shell command interpreter
csplit
Split files based on context.
ctags
Create a tag file for use with ex and vi.
cu
Calls or connects to another UNIX system, terminal or non-UNIX system.
cut
Cut out selected fields of each line of a file.
date
Tells you the date and time in UNIX.
dc
An arbitrary precision arithmetic package.
df
Display the available disk space for each mount.
deroff
Removes nroff/troff, tbl, and eqn constructs.
diff
Displays two files and prints the lines that are different.
dircmp
Lists the different files when comparing directories.
dpost
Translates files created by troff into PostScript.
du
Tells you how much space a file occupies.
echo
Displays text after echo to the terminal.
ed
Line oriented file editor.
edit
Text editor.
egrep
Search a file for a pattern using full regular expressions.
elm
Program command used to send and receive e-mail.
emacs
Text editor.
enable
Enables / Disables LP printers.
env
Displays environment variables.
eqn
Language processors to assist in describing equations.
ex
Line-editor mode of the vi text editor.
exit
Exit from a program, shell or log you out of a UNIX network.
expand
Expand copies of file s.
expr
Evaluate arguments as an expression.
fc
The FC utility lists or edits and re-executes, commands previously entered to an interactive sh.
fg
Continues a stopped job by running it in the foreground
fgrep
Search a file for a fixed-character string.
file
Tells you if the object you are looking at is a file or if it is a directory.
find
Finds one or more files assuming that you know their approximate filenames.
finger
Lists information about the user.
fmt
Simple text formatters.
fold
Filter for folding lines.
for
Shell built-in functions to repeatedly execute action(s) for a selected number of times.
foreach
Shell built-in functions to repeatedly execute action(s) for a selected number of times
ftp
Enables ftp access to another terminal.
getfacl
Display discretionary file information.
gprof
The gprof utility produces an execution profile of a program.
grep
Finds text within a file.
groupadd
Creates a new group account.
groupdel
Enables a super user or root to remove a group.
groupmod
Enables a super user or root to modify a group.
gunzip
Expand compressed files.
gview
A programmers text editor.
gvim
A programmers text editor.
gzip
Compress files.
halt
Stop the computer.
hash
Remove internal hash table.
hashstat
Display the hash stats.
head
Displays the first ten lines of a file, unless otherwise stated.
help
If computer has online help documentation installed this command will display it.
history
Display the history of commands typed.
hostname
Set or print name of current host system.
id
Shows you the numeric user and group ID on BSD.
ifconfig
Sets up network interfaces.
isalist
Display the native instruction sets executable on this platform.
jobs
List the jobs currently running in the background.
join
Joins command forms together.
keylogin
Decrypt the user's secret key.
kill
Cancels a job.
ksh
Korn shell command interpreter.
ld
Link-editor for object files.
ldd
List dynamic dependencies of executable files or shared objects.
less
Opposite of the more command.
lex
Generate programs for lexical tasks.
ln
Creates a link to a file.
lo
Allows you to exit from a program, shell or log you out of a UNIX network.
locate
List files in databases that match a pattern.
login
Signs into a new system.
logname
Returns users login name.
logout
Logs out of a system.
lp
Prints a file on System V systems.
lpadmin
Configure the LP print service.
lpc
Line printer control program.
lpq
Lists the status of all the available printers.
lpr
Submits print requests.
lprm
Removes print requests from the print queue.
lpstat
Lists status of the LP print services.
ls
Lists the contents of a directory.
mach
Display the processor type of the current host.
mail
One of the ways that allows you to read/send E-Mail.
mailcompat
Provide SunOS 4.x compatibility for the Solaris mailbox format.
mailx
Mail interactive message processing system.
make
Executes a list of shell commands associated with each target.
man
Display a manual of a command.
mesg
Control if non-root users can send text messages to you.
mkdir
Create a directory.
more
Displays text one screen at a time.
mount
Disconnects a file systems and remote resources.
mt
Magnetic tape control.
mv
Renames a file or moves it from one directory to another directory.
neqn
Language processors to assist in describing equations.
netstat
Shows network status.
newalias
Install new elm aliases for user and/or system.
newform
Change the format of a text file.
newgrp
Log into a new group.
nice
Invokes a command with an altered scheduling priority.
niscat
Display NIS+ tables and objects.
nischmod
Change access rights on a NIS+ object.
nischown
Change the owner of a NIS+ object.
nischttl
Change the time to live value of a NIS+ object.
nisdefaults
Display NIS+ default values.
nisgrep
Utilities for searching NIS+ tables.
nismatch
Utilities for searching NIS+ tables.
nispasswd
Change NIS+ password information.
nistbladm
NIS+ table administration command.
nohup
Runs a command even if the session is disconnected or the user logs out.
nroff
Formats documents for display or line-printer.
nslookup
Queries a name server for a host or domain lookup.
on
Execute a command on a remote system, but with the local environment.
onintr
Shell built-in functions to respond to (hardware) signals.
optisa
Determine which variant instruction set is optimal to use.
pack
Shrinks file into a compressed file.
pagesize
Display the size of a page of memory in bytes, as returned by getpagesize.
passwd
Allows you to change your password.
paste
Merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files.
pax
Read / write and writes lists of the members of archive files and copy directory hierarchies.
pcat
Compresses file.
perl
Perl is a programming language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files.
pg
Files perusal filters for CRTs.
pgrep
Examine the active processes on the system and reports the process IDs of the processes
pico
Simple and very easy to use text editor in the style of the Pine Composer.
ping
Sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to network hosts.
pkill
Examine the active processes on the system and reports the process IDs of the processes
poweroff
Stop the computer.
pr
Formats a file to make it look better when printed.
priocntl
Display's or set scheduling parameters of specified process(es)
printf
Write formatted output.
ps
Reports the process status.
pvs
Display the internal version information of dynamic objects within an ELF file.
pwd
Print the current working directory.
quit
Allows you to exit from a program, shell or log you out of a UNIX network.
rcp
Copies files from one computer to another computer.
reboot
Stop the computer.
red
Line oriented file editor.
rehash
Recomputes the internal hash table of the contents of directories listed in the path.
remsh
Runs a command on another computer.
repeat
Shell built-in functions to repeatedly execute action(s) for a selected number of times.
rgview
A programmers text editor.
rgvim
A programmers text editor.
rlogin
Establish a remote connection from your terminal to a remote machine.
rm
Deletes a file without confirmation (by default).
rmail
One of the ways that allows you to read/send E-Mail.
rmdir
Deletes a directory.
rn
Reads newsgroups.
rpcinfo
Report RPC information.
rsh
Runs a command on another computer.
rview
A programmers text editor.
rvim
A programmers text editor.
s2p
Convert a sed script into a Perl script.
sag
Graphically displays the system activity data stored in a binary data file by a previous sar run.
sar
Displays the activity for the CPU.
script
Records everything printed on your screen.
sdiff
Compares two files, side-by-side.
sed
Allows you to use pre-recorded commands to make changes to text.
sendmail
Sends mail over the internet.
set
Set the value of an environment variable.
setenv
Set the value of an environment variable.
setfacl
Modify the Access Control List (ACL) for a file or files.
settime
Change file access and modification time.
sh
Runs or processes jobs through the Bourne shell.
shutdown
Turn off the computer immediately or at a specified time.
sleep
Waits a x amount of seconds.
sort
Sorts the lines in a text file.
spell
Looks through a text file and reports any words that it finds in the text file that are not in the dictionary.
split
Split a file into pieces.
stop
Control process execution.
stty
Sets options for your terminal.
su
Become super user or another user.
sysinfo
Get and set system information strings.
tabs
Set tabs on a terminal.
tail
Delivers the last part of the file.
talk
Talk with other logged in users.
tar
Create tape archives and add or extract files.
tbl
Preprocessor for formatting tables for nroff or troff.
tcopy
Copy a magnetic tape.
tee
Read from an input and write to a standard output or file.
telnet
Uses the telnet protocol to connect to another remote computer.
time
Used to time a simple command.
timex
The timex command times a command; reports process data and system activity
touch
Change file access and modification time.
tput
Initialize a terminal or query terminfo database.
tr
Translate characters.
traceroute
Print the route packets take to network host.
troff
Typeset or format documents.
ul
Reads the named filenames or terminal and does underlining.
umask
Get or set the file mode creation mask.
unalias
Remove an alias.
unhash
Remove internal hash table.
uname
Print name of current system.
uncompress
Uncompressed compressed files.
uniq
Report or filter out repeated lines in a file.
unmount
Crates a file systems and remote resources.
unpack
Expands a compressed file.
untar
Create tape archives and add or extract files.
until
Execute a set of actions while/until conditions are evaluated TRUE.
useradd
Create a new user or updates default new user information.
userdel
Remove a users account.
usermod
Modify a users account.
vacation
Reply to mail automatically.
vedit
Screen-oriented (visual) display editor based on ex.
vgrind
Grind nice program listings
vi
Screen-oriented (visual) display editor based on ex.
vim
A programmers text editor.
view
A programmers text editor.
wait
Await process completion.
wc
Displays a count of lines, words, and characters in a file
whereis
Locate a binary, source, and manual page files for a command.
while
Repetitively execute a set of actions while/until conditions are evaluated TRUE.
which
Locate a command.
who
Displays who is on the system.
whois
Internet user name directory service.
write
Send a message to another user.
X
Execute the X windows system.
xfd
Display all the characters in an X font.
xlsfonts
Server font list displayer for X.
xset
User preference utility for X.
xterm
Terminal emulator for X.
xrdb
X server resource database utility.
yacc
Short for yet another compiler-compiler, yacc is a compiler.
yppasswd
Changes network password in the NIS database.
zcat
Compress files.Labels: UNIX / LINUX COMMAND |
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