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Commonly Used Unix Commands

This document provides a summary of commonly used Unix commands organized into categories such as starting and ending, file management, communication, information, printing, and job control. It lists commands like login, telnet, logout, emacs, mkdir, cd, ls, cp, mv, rm, chmod, pine, talk, write, ftp, man, finger, passwd, who, lpr, lprm, lpq, ps, kill, nohup, nice, and &. The document encourages users to use the man command for more information on each command.

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Commonly Used Unix Commands

This document provides a summary of commonly used Unix commands organized into categories such as starting and ending, file management, communication, information, printing, and job control. It lists commands like login, telnet, logout, emacs, mkdir, cd, ls, cp, mv, rm, chmod, pine, talk, write, ftp, man, finger, passwd, who, lpr, lprm, lpq, ps, kill, nohup, nice, and &. The document encourages users to use the man command for more information on each command.

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Commonly used Unix commands


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' telnet: 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
pine: `Using Pine to send and receive e-mail' mush: The mush electronic mail system talk: Talk to another user write: Write messages to another user ftp: `Transferring files with ftp'

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

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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' Next: Selecting a Unix shell See also: Learning the basic Unix tools Previous: Unix fundamentals Site map Index: Keyword index to help pages Help: New Mexico Tech Computer Center: Help System Home: About New Mexico Tech R. G. Baer, [email protected] Last updated: 1995/12/19 18:12:06 UT URL: http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/unix_cmd.html

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