Unix Commands - Basic

The following is a short list of Unix commands most users will need. For more information, try man command.

Starting and Ending

login: `Logging in'
ssh: Connect to another machine
logout: `Logging out'

File Management

emacs: `Using the emacs text editor'
mkdir: `Creating a directory'
cd: `Changing your current working directory'
ls: `Finding out what files you have'
cp: `Making a copy of a file'
mv: `Changing the name of a file'
rm: `Getting rid of unwanted files'
chmod: `Controlling access to your files'
cmp: Comparing two files
wc: Word, line, and character count
compress: Compress a file

Communication

e-mail: `Sending and receiving electronic mail'
talk: Talk to another user
write: Write messages to another user
sftp: Secure file transfer protocol

Information

man: Manual pages
quota -v: Finding out your available disk space quota
ical: `Using the Ical personal organizer'
finger: Getting information about a user
passwd: Changing your password
who: Finding out who's logged on

Printing

lpr: `Printing'
lprm: Removing a print job
lpq: Checking the print queues

Job control

ps: `Finding your processes'
kill: `Killing a process'
nohup: Continuing a job after logout
nice: Changing the priority of a job
&: `What is a background process?'
Cntrl-z: Suspending a process
fg: `Resuming a suspended process'
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Additional commands

dos2unix: Unix2 dos - Convert unix files from dos and viceversa
xmllint: command to format XML file for view
less: view unix files in scrollable mode
vi commands:
shift 6 = Switch between files
esc : ! unix commands -to execute unix commands in temporary shells
esc : n - move to next file in the list of open files
esc " 10 yy - copy lines in temporary memory "
esc " p - paste the contents of "
ls -l | awk { print $9}

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