unix useful commands

Leaflet U5 Thirty Useful Unix Commands Last revised April 1997 This leaflet contains basic information on thirty of the most frequently used Unix Commands. It is intended for Unix beginners who need a guide to the names and details of commands that are... More

Leaflet U5 Thirty Useful Unix Commands Last revised April 1997 This leaflet contains basic information on thirty of the most frequently used Unix Commands. It is intended for Unix beginners who need a guide to the names and details of commands that are likely to be of use to them. Every effort has been made to make this leaflet as generally valid as possible, but there are many different versions of Unix available within the University, so if you should find a command option behaving differently on your local machine you should consult the on-line manual page for that command. Some commands have numerous options and there is not enough space to detail them all here, so for fuller information on these commands use the relevant on-line manual page. The names of commands are printed in bold, and the names of objects operated on by these commands (e.g. files, directories) are printed in italics. Index of Commands cat - display or concatenate files cd - change directory chmod - change the p Less