Unix Commands From Tutorial
- passwd
- to change your password
- logout
- logs off the Unix session
- who
- lists the users currently logged on to the computer
- finger
- lists the login and real name of each user
- date
- displays the date and time
- lookup
- looks up possible user names from real names
- users
- finds all users logged on to the computer
- ls
- lists files
- cat
- reads a file and displays it on the screen
- cp
- creates a copy of a file
- mv
- moves the contents of one file to another; equals rename
- rm
- deletes files from a directory
- more
- displays a file one screen at a time
- Spacebar
- advances one page
- Return
- advances one line
- Q
- to quit
- pwd
- displays current working directory
- mkdir
- makes new directories
- cd
- changes the directory currently being worked in
- rmdir
- removes directories
- pico
- opens the Unix text editor
- elm
- invokes the email program
- man pages
- displays manual pages in regard to chosen command
- help
- displays help files
- spell
- invokes spelling checker
- wc
- displays, word, line, and character count
- grep
- finds character patterns in a file
- lpr
- prints files to a line printer
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