Unix is a Four Letter Word: Unix ---> Miscellaneous

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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