Unix ---> Miscellaneous

This page is a terse description of a few more Unix commands that you may find occasion to use.

awk

- A pattern scanning and processing language.

bar

- Creates a tape archive. (Similar to tar)

bg

- Moves a job into the background.

cal

- Displays a calendar.

cc

- Compiles C code.

chfn

- Changes finger information.

clear

- Clears your terminal's screen.

cmp

- Performs a byte-by-byte comparison of two files.

cut

- Removes selected fields from each line of a file.

date

- Displays or sets the date.

ed

- The most basic line editor.

ex

- A simple line editor. Also know as e or edit.

fg

- Moves a job into the foreground.

file

- Determines the type of a file by examining its contents.

fmt

- Formats text.

hostname

- Sets or prints the name of the current host computer.

jobs

- Lists the current jobs in the shell.

make

- Maintains, updates, and regenerates related programs and files.

mesg

- Permits or denies messages on your terminal.

mt

- Provides magnetic tape control.

od

- Dumps octal, decimal, hexadecimal, or ascii representations of files.

pack/unpack

- Similar to compress/uncompress, but uses Huffman coding.

paste

- Joins corresponding lines of several files.

rev

- Reverses the order of characters in each line.

rcp

- Copies a file from a remote computer to the local computer and vice versa.

rsh

- Execute a remote shell command.

sed

- A stream editor-quite powerful.

sort

- Sorts and collates lines.

split

- Splits a file into pieces.

stty

- Sets or alters the options for a terminal.

tr

- Translates characters.

uname

- Displays the name of the current system.

units

- Converts a number into different units.

uuencode/uudecode

- Encodes/decodes a binary file into strictly ascii characters. (Useful for transmission via electronic mail)

write

- Write a message to another user.

xget/xsend

- Commands for sending/receiving secret mail.

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