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Access Control Miscellaneous

This document provides a summary of common UNIX commands organized into the following categories: Access Control, Communications, Programming Tools, Documentation, Editors, File and Directory Management, File Display and Printing, File Transfer, Image Processing, Sound, Text Processing, Status Information, X windows, and Web. It includes brief descriptions of commands for system access, file manipulation, programming, documentation, communications, and more.

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Access Control Miscellaneous

This document provides a summary of common UNIX commands organized into the following categories: Access Control, Communications, Programming Tools, Documentation, Editors, File and Directory Management, File Display and Printing, File Transfer, Image Processing, Sound, Text Processing, Status Information, X windows, and Web. It includes brief descriptions of commands for system access, file manipulation, programming, documentation, communications, and more.

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Access Control

Miscellaneous

exit - terminate a shell (see "man sh" or


"man csh")
logout - sign off; end session (C shell and
bash shell only;)
passwd - change login password
rlogin - log in remotely to another UNIX
system
ssh - secure shell
slogin - secure version of rlogin
yppasswd - change login password in yellow
pages

alias - define synonym commands


chquota - change disk quota on ACITS UNIX
systems
chsh - change default login shell
clear - clear terminal screen
echo - echo arguments
pbm - portable bitmap manipulation
programs
popd - pop the directory stack (C shell only)
pushd - push directory on stack (C shell
only)
script - make typescript of terminal session
setenv - set an environment variable (C shell
only)
stty - set terminal options

Communications
mail - send and receive mail
mesg - permit or deny terminal messages
and talk requests
pine - send and receive mail
talk - talk to another logged-in user
write - write to another logged-in user

Programming Tools
as - assembler, specific to each machine
architecture
awk - pattern scanning and processing
language
bc - online calculator
cc - C compiler
csh - C shell command interpreter
dbx - source-level debugging program
f77 - Fortran compiler
gdb - GNU Project debugger
gprof - display profile of called routines
kill - kill a process
ld - the UNIX loader
lex - generate lexical analysis programs
lint - check C source code
make - maintain large programs
maple - symbolic mathematics program
math - symbolic mathematics program
nice - run a command at low priority (see
"man nice" or "man csh")
nohup - run a command immune to
hangups
pc - Pascal compiler (xlp on ADS)
perl - Popular script interpreter

News/Networks
netstat - show network status
rsh - run shell or command on another UNIX
system
ssh - secure-shell version of rsh

Process Control
bg - put suspended process into background
fg - bring process into foreground
jobs - list processes
^y - suspend process at next input request
^z - suspend current process

Status Information
clock - determine processor time
date - show date and time
df - summarize free disk space
du - summarize disk space used
env - display environment
finger - look up user information
history - list previously issued commands
last - indicate last login of users
lpq - examine spool queue
manpath - show search path for man pages
printenv - print out environment
ps - show process status
pwd - print full pathname of working
directory
set - set shell variables (C shell, bash, or

prof - display profile data


python - Python programming language
sh - Bourne shell command interpreter
yacc - generate input parsing programs
xcalc - graphical calulator under x

Documentation
apropos - locate commands by keyword
lookup
find - locate file (i.e. find . -name *.tex print)
info - start the info explorer program
man - find manual information about
commands
whatis - describe what a command is
whereis - locate source, binary, or man
page for a program

Editors
emacs - screen-oriented text editor
pico - screen-oriented text editor (renamed
called nano)
sed - stream-oriented text editor
vi - full-screen text editor
vim - full-screen text editor ("vi-improved")

File and Directory Management


cd - change working directory
chmod - change the protection of a file or
directory
chown - change owner (or group) of a file or
directory
chgrp - change group of a file or directory
cmp - compare two files
comm - select/reject lines common to two
sorted files
cp - copy files
crypt - encrypt/decrypt files (CCWF only)
diff - compare the contents of two ASCII
files
file - determine file type
grep - search a file for a pattern
gzip - compress or expand files
ln - make a link to a file
ls - list the contents of a directory
lsof - list of open files
mkdir - create a directory
mv - move or rename files and directories

ksh)
spend - lists year-to-date ACITS UNIX
charges
stty - set terminal options
time - timing programs
top - list top cpu processes
uptime - show system load, how long system
has been up
w - show who is on system, what command
each job is executing
who - show who is logged onto the system
whois - Internet user name directory service
whoami - who owns the shell

Image Processing
gimp - photoshop type image processing
program
xfig - drawing program
xv - image viewer
xvscan - scan picture
xpaint - paint program
kpaint - kde paint program

Sound
mplayer - mpg player
realplay - realaudio player
timidity - midi to wav converter and player
xmms - mp3 player

Text Processing
abiword - open source word processor
addbib - create or extend bibliographic
database
col - filter reverse line feeds
diction - identify wordy sentences
diffmk - mark differences between files
dvips - convert TeX DVI files into PostScript
explain - explain phrases found by diction
program
grap - pic preprocessor for drawing graphs
hyphen - find hyphenated words
ispell - check spelling interactively
latex - format text in LaTeX (based on TeX)
pdfelatex - latex with pdf output
latex2html - Latex to html
lookbib - find bibliography references
macref - make cross-reference listing of

pwd - show the full pathname of your


working directory
quota - display disk usage and limits
rm - delete (remove) files
rmdir - delete (remove) directories
stat - status of file (i.e. last access)
sync - flush filesystem buffers
sort - sort or merge files
tar - create or extract archives
tee - copy input to standard output and
other files
tr - translate characters
umask - change default file protections
uncompress - restore compressed file
uniq - report (or delete) repeated lines in a
file
wc - count lines, words, and characters in a
file

File Display and Printing


cat - show the contents of a file; catenate
files
fold - fold long lines to fit output device
head - show first few lines of a file
lpq - examine the printer spooling queue
lpr - print a file
lprm - remove jobs from the printer
spooling queue
more - display a file, one screen at a time
less - like more with more features
page - like "more", but prints screens top to
bottom
pr - paginate a file for printing
tail - show the last part of a file
zcat - display a compressed file
xv - show print, manipulate images
gv - show ps and pdf files
xpdf = shopw pdf files (use gv)

File Transfer
ftp - transfer files between network hosts
rsync - fast and flexible sync between
computers
scp - secure version of rcp

nroff/troff macro files


ndx - create a subject-page index for a
document
neqn - format mathematics with nroff
nroff - format text for simple display
pic - make simple pictures for troff input
psdit - filter troff output for Apple
LaserWriter
ptx - make permuted index (not on CCWF)
refer - insert references from bibliographic
databases
roffbib - run off bibliographic database
sortbib - sort bibliographic database
spell - find spelling errors
ispell - interactive spell checker
style - analyze surface characteristics of a
document
tbl - format tables for nroff/troff
tex - format text
tpic - convert pic source files into TeX
commands
wget - grab webpage

X windows
grabmode - info on screen: i.e. "1152x864"
51.213kHz/56.59Hz
import - grab window (i.e. import ppm:>out.ppm)
xdpyinfo - number of colors
xkill - kill xwindow
xlock - lock screen
xterm - xterminal
xwininfo - information on open window

Web
html2ps - html to ps
latex2html - latex to html translator
lynx - text based webbrowser
netscape - webbrowser
sitecopy - sitecopy is for easily maintaining
remote web sites.
weblint - html sytax and style checker

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