Guide to Unix/Commands

The Unix command line is often considered difficult to learn. This book aims to help beginners by introducing various commands in lucid and simple language. Unlike most command references, this book is designed to be a self-study guide. Contents Section Contents Summary/Getting Help/man 75% October 7, 2005 info 50% October 7, 2005 apropos 75% October 7, 2005 whatis 50% October 7, 2005 makewhatis 25% October 7, 2005/File System Utilities/ls 25% October 7, 2005 mkdir 50% October 7, 2005 cd 50% October 7, 2005 pwd 75% October 7, 2005 chroot 50% October 7, 2005 cp 25% October 7, 2005 mv 25% October 7, 2005 rm 25% October 7, 2005 touch 50% October 7, 2005 df 75% October 7, 2005 link 25% October 7, 2005 ln 25% October 7, 2005 unlink 25% October 7, 2005 chown chmod mount/Finding Files/find 50% October 7, 2005 whereis 75% October 7, 2005 which 75% October 7, 2005 locate 50% October 7, 2005 xargs/File Viewing/cat 50% October 7, 2005 more 25% October 7, 2005 less 25% October 7, 2005 od 50% October 7, 2005 head 50% October 7, 2005 tail 75% October 7, 2005/File Editing/pico 00% July 13, 2006 nano 00% July 13, 2006 zile 00% July 13, 2006 vi 00% July 13, 2006 joe 00% July 13, 2006 emacs 00% July 13, 2006/Text Processing/awk ∙ comm ∙ csplit ∙ cut ∙ expand ∙ fmt ∙ fold ∙ iconv ∙ join ∙ nl ∙ paste ∙ pr ∙ sed ∙ sort ∙ spell ∙ tr ∙ unexpand ∙ uniq/File Compression/gzip ∙ gunzip ∙ zcat ∙ gzcat ∙ tar ∙ pax ∙ bzip2 ∙ zip ∙ unzip ∙ compress ∙ uncompress ∙ unar/File Analysing/file 25% October 7, 2005 wc 75% October 7, 2005 cksum ∙ sum ∙ stat ∙ grep ∙ diff ∙ diff3 ∙ cmp ∙ strings/Multiuser Commands/who 75% October 7, 2005 finger 75% October 7, 2005 su 75% October 7, 2005/Self Information/whoami 100% October 7, 2005 groups 100% October 7, 2005 id 100% October 7, 2005 tty 100% October 7, 2005/System Information/uptime 100% October 7, 2005 uname 50% October 7, 2005 dmesg 75% October 7, 2005 free 50% October 7, 2005 vmstat 50% October 7, 2005 top 25% October 7, 2005 df 75% October 7, 2005 hostname 75% October 7, 2005/Networking/ifconfig ∙ ifdown ∙ ifup/Process Management/nohup 50% October 7, 2005 ps 75% October 7, 2005 kill 25% October 7, 2005 pgrep 50% October 7, 2005 pidof 50% October 7, 2005 killall 75% October 7, 2005/Devices/fuser 50% October 7, 2005 lsof 50% October 7, 2005 fstat/Kernel Commands/lsmod 25% October 7, 2005 modprobe ∙ sysctl/Miscellaneous/sync 100% October 7, 2005 echo 75% October 7, 2005 printf ∙ cal 50% October 7, 2005 date 100% June 26, 2006 time 50% October 7, 2005 from 25% October 7, 2005 mail25% June 26, 2006 clear100% June 26, 2006 seq ∙ tee ∙ sleep ∙ yes ∙ true ∙ false/SW Development/adb ∙ ar ∙ as ∙ cc ∙ cflow ∙ ctags ∙ cxref ∙ f77 ∙ ld ∙ lex ∙ lint ∙ make ∙ nm ∙ objdump ∙ prof ∙ strip ∙ yacc External links W:List of Unix programs