DOS UNIX dir ............... ls cls ............... clear del ............... rm copy .............. cp move / rename ..... mv type .............. cat cd ................ cd more < file ....... more file md ................ mkdir rd ................ rmdir win ............... startx (Note: Unlike DOS, commands and their arguments are case sensitive and MUST be separated by a space. For example, "cd/" doesn't work, but "cd /" does.)
ls ................. show directory, in alphabetical order exit ............... logs off the system (actually it exits the shell) logout ............. logs off the system mkdir .............. make a directory rmdir .............. remove directory (rm -r to delete folders with files) rm ................. remove files cd ................. change current directory man (command) ...... shows help on a specific command talk (user) ........ pages user for chat - (user) is a email address write (user) ....... write a user on the local system (control-c to end) pico (filename) .... easy to use text editor to edit files pine ............... easy to use mailer more (file) ........ views a file, pausing every screenful sz ................. send a file (to you) using zmodem rz ................. recieve a file (to the unix system) using zmodem telnet (host) ...... connect to another Internet site ftp (host) ......... connects to a FTP site archie (filename) .. search the Archie database for a file on a FTP site irc ................ connect to Internet Relay Chat lynx ............... a textual World Wide Web browset gopher ............. a Gopher database browser tin, trn ........... read Usenet newsgroups passwd ............. change your password chfn ............... change your "Real Name" as seen on finger chsh ............... change the shell you log into grep ............... search for a string in a file tail ............... show the last few lines of a file who ................ shows who is logged into the local system w .................. shows who is logged on and what they're doing finger (emailaddr).. shows more information about a user df ................. shows disk space available on the system du ................. shows how much disk space is being used up by folders chmod .............. changes permissions on a file bc ................. a simple calculator make ............... compiles source code gcc (file.c) ....... compiles C source into a file named 'a.out' gzip ............... best compression for UNIX files zip ................ zip for IBM files tar ................ combines multiple files into one or vice-versa lharc, lzh, lha .... un-arc'ers, may not be on your system dos2unix (file) (new) - strips CR's out of dos text files unix2dos (file) (new) - adds CR's to unix text files
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