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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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