Access Control Miscellaneous

exit - terminate a shell (see "man alias - define synonym commands

sh" or "man csh") chquota - change disk quota on ACITS
logout - sign off; end session (C UNIX systems
shell and bash shell only;) chsh - change default login shell
passwd - change login password clear - clear terminal screen
rlogin - log in remotely to another echo - echo arguments
UNIX system pbm - portable bitmap manipulation
ssh - secure shell programs
slogin - secure version of rlogin popd - pop the directory stack (C
yppasswd - change login password in shell only)
yellow pages pushd - push directory on stack (C
shell only)
script - make typescript of terminal
Communications session
setenv - set an environment variable
(C shell only)
mail - send and receive mail stty - set terminal options
mesg - permit or deny terminal
messages and talk requests
pine - send and receive mail News/Networks
talk - talk to another logged-in user
write - write to another logged-in
user netstat - show network status
rsh - run shell or command on another
UNIX system
Programming Tools ssh - secure-shell version of rsh

as - assembler, specific to each Process Control

machine architecture
awk - pattern scanning and processing
language bg - put suspended process into
bc - online calculator background
cc - C compiler fg - bring process into foreground
csh - C shell command interpreter jobs - list processes
dbx - source-level debugging program ^y - suspend process at next input
f77 - Fortran compiler request
gdb - GNU Project debugger ^z - suspend current process
gprof - display profile of called
routines
kill - kill a process Status Information
ld - the UNIX loader
lex - generate lexical analysis
programs clock - determine processor time
lint - check C source code date - show date and time
make - maintain large programs df - summarize free disk space
maple - symbolic mathematics program du - summarize disk space used
math - symbolic mathematics program env - display environment
nice - run a command at low priority finger - look up user information
(see "man nice" or "man csh") history - list previously issued
nohup - run a command immune to commands
hangups last - indicate last login of users
pc - Pascal compiler (xlp on ADS) lpq - examine spool queue
perl - Popular script interpreter manpath - show search path for man
prof - display profile data pages
python - Python programming language
sh - Bourne shell command interpreter printenv - print out environment
yacc - generate input parsing ps - show process status
programs pwd - print full pathname of working
xcalc - graphical calulator under x directory
set - set shell variables (C shell,
bash, or ksh)
Documentation spend - lists year-to-date ACITS UNIX
charges
stty - set terminal options
apropos - locate commands by keyword time - timing programs
lookup top - list top cpu processes
find - locate file (i.e. find . -name uptime - show system load, how long
*.tex -print) system has been up
info - start the info explorer w - show who is on system, what
program command each job is executing
man - find manual information about who - show who is logged onto the
commands system
whatis - describe what a command is whois - Internet user name directory
whereis - locate source, binary, or service
man page for a program whoami - who owns the shell
Editors
emacs - screen-oriented text editor
Image Processing
pico - screen-oriented text editor
(renamed called nano)
sed - stream-oriented text editor gimp - photoshop type image
vi - full-screen text editor processing program
vim - full-screen text editor ("vi- xfig - drawing program
improved") xv - image viewer
xvscan - scan picture
File and Directory Management xpaint - paint program
cd - change working directory kpaint - kde paint program
chmod - change the protection of a
file or directory
chown - change owner (or group) of a
Sound
file or directory
chgrp - change group of a file or
directory mplayer - mpg player
cmp - compare two files realplay - realaudio player
comm - select/reject lines common to timidity - midi to wav converter and
two sorted files player
cp - copy files xmms - mp3 player
crypt - encrypt/decrypt files (CCWF
only)
diff - compare the contents of two Text Processing
ASCII files
file - determine file type
grep - search a file for a pattern abiword - open source word processor
gzip - compress or expand files addbib - create or extend
ln - make a link to a file bibliographic database
ls - list the contents of a directory col - filter reverse line feeds
lsof - list of open files diction - identify wordy sentences
mkdir - create a directory diffmk - mark differences between
mv - move or rename files and files
directories dvips - convert TeX DVI files into
pwd - show the full pathname of your PostScript
working directory explain - explain phrases found by
quota - display disk usage and limits diction program
rm - delete (remove) files grap - pic preprocessor for drawing
rmdir - delete (remove) directories graphs
stat - status of file (i.e. last hyphen - find hyphenated words
access) ispell - check spelling interactively
sync - flush filesystem buffers latex - format text in LaTeX (based
sort - sort or merge files on TeX)
tar - create or extract archives pdfelatex - latex with pdf output
tee - copy input to standard output latex2html - Latex to html
and other files lookbib - find bibliography
tr - translate characters references
umask - change default file macref - make cross-reference listing
protections of nroff/troff macro files
uncompress - restore compressed file ndx - create a subject-page index for
uniq - report (or delete) repeated a document
lines in a file neqn - format mathematics with nroff
wc - count lines, words, and nroff - format text for simple
characters in a file display
pic - make simple pictures for troff
input
File Display and Printing psdit - filter troff output for Apple
LaserWriter
ptx - make permuted index (not on
cat - show the contents of a file; CCWF)
catenate files refer - insert references from
fold - fold long lines to fit output bibliographic databases
device roffbib - run off bibliographic
head - show first few lines of a file database
lpq - examine the printer spooling sortbib - sort bibliographic database
queue spell - find spelling errors
lpr - print a file ispell - interactive spell checker
lprm - remove jobs from the printer style - analyze surface
spooling queue characteristics of a document
more - display a file, one screen at tbl - format tables for nroff/troff
a time tex - format text
less - like more with more features tpic - convert pic source files into
page - like "more", but prints TeX commands
screens top to bottom wget - grab webpage
pr - paginate a file for printing
tail - show the last part of a file
zcat - display a compressed file X windows
xv - show print, manipulate images
gv - show ps and pdf files
xpdf = shopw pdf files (use gv) grabmode - info on screen: i.e.
"1152x864" 51.213kHz/56.59Hz
import - grab window (i.e. import
File Transfer ppm:- >out.ppm)
xdpyinfo - number of colors
xkill - kill xwindow
ftp - transfer files between network xlock - lock screen
hosts xterm - xterminal
rsync - fast and flexible sync xwininfo - information on open window
between computers
scp - secure version of rcp
Web

html2ps - html to ps
latex2html - latex to html translator
lynx - text based webbrowser
netscape - webbrowser
sitecopy - sitecopy is for easily
maintaining remote web sites.
weblint - html sytax and style
checker