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Appendixes

Appendix A: Command Index

Appendix B: Command Index by Category
Appendix C: Command Summary (Including Command Options)
Appendix D: Summary of vi Editor Commands
Appendix E: Summary of Emacs Editor Commands
Appendix F: The ASCII Table

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Command Index
This appendix is a quick index to the commands covered in this book. The commands
are in alphabetical order. Numbers after each command indicate the page numbers.

alias creates aliases for commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

at executes commands at a later time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
banner displays banner (in large characters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
cal provides calendar service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
calendar provides reminder service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
cancel removes (cancels) the printing requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
cat concatenates/displays file(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
cd changes the current directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
chmod changes file/directory permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
compress reduces the size of the file for storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
cp copies files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
crypt encrypts/decrypts files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
cut selects the specified fields/columns from files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
date displays date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
df shows total amount of free disk space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
dot runs processes in the current shell environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
du provides disk usage report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460
echo displays (echoes) its argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
ed UNIX line-oriented editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
emacs the emacs editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ex standard UNIX line-oriented editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
exit terminates the current shell program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
export exports variables to other shells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
expr provides arithmetic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
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fc lists commands from history file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

find finds and acts on a specified file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
finger displays information on users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
ftp transfers files from one system to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
grep searches in file(s) for a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
head displays the first part of a specified file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
help invokes menu-driven help utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
history keeps a list of all the entered commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
kill terminates processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
learn invokes courses/lessons utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
let provides arithmetic operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
ln links files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
lp prints file(s) on the line printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
lpr prints specified file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
lpstat provides the status of the printing requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
ls lists contents of a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
mailx provides an electronic mail processing system (e-mail) . . . . . . . . . 339
man finds information from the electronic manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
mesg permits/denies messages from the write command . . . . . . . . . . . 320
mkdir creates a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
more displays files one screen at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
mv moves/renames files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
news provides access to the local system news . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
nohup keeps commands running after you log off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
passwd changes your login password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
paste joins files together line by line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
pg displays file one screen at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
pr formats file before printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
ps provides the process status report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
pwd displays the current/working directory pathname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
r (redo) repeats commands from the history file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
rcp provides remote copy program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
read reads input from the input device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
rm removes (deletes) file(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
rmdir removes (deletes) empty directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
rsh provides remote shell program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
rlogin provides remote login program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
set sets/displays the values of the shell variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
sh invokes a new copy of the shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
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sleep makes the process wait for a specified time in seconds . . . . . . . . . 283
sort sorts file(s) in specified order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
spell provides spelling checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
stty sets terminal options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
tail displays the last part of a specified file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
talk provides terminal-to-terminal communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
tar archives a set of files into a tarfile on a tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
tee splits output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
telnet allows to log into a remote server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
test tests an expression for true/false conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
time times a command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
tput provides access to the terminfo database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
trap sets/resets the interrupt signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
type displays the type of the specified command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
unset removes a shell variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
vi invokes standard UNIX screen editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
view invokes read only vi editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
wall writes to all currently logged in terminals (write all) . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
wc counts lines, words, or characters in a specified file(s) . . . . . . . . . . 232
who shows who is on the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
write provides terminal-to-terminal communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
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