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COMMAND

Login Passwd Exit Which Man Kill Nice

SYNTAX
login[name] passwd [options] [login] exit which [options] [--] pname [...] man <command name> kill [ -s signal |-p] [-a] [--] pid nice [OPTION][COMMAND[ARG].] jobs[options]jobID wait[n] nohup COMMAND[ARG] sleep [option] talk user[ttyname] write user[ttyname] mail[options] users cmp[options] file1 file2 comm[options] file1 file2 diff[option]FILES touch[option].file

DESCRIPTION
login to the system by uname change user password allows you to exit from program shows the full path of commands displays the manual online pages terminate a process run a program with scheduled priority displays status of jobs in current session pauses until execution of process has ended runs a program without hang-ups suspends program execution for some time talk with other logged-in users send a message to other user allows to you send or receive mail compares two files&tells which is diff compares two sorted files line by line displays two files&print lines that are diff touch change file stamps gives access to change permissions changes user/owner ship of given file remove files or d irectories rename files move files copy files and directories reads one or more files &print them to standard output copy files from one sys to other sys

Jobs
Wait Nohup Sleep Talk Write Mail Cmp Comm. Diff Touch Chmod Chown Rm Mv

chmod [options]mode[,mode] file1[file2] chown owner-user file rm [option] file mv old new Mv i soucrce dest cp file name source dest cat[options] files

Cp Cat

rcp

rcp [-p] [-r] file name directory

COMMAND
mkdir rmdir ls find file more tail head read tee

SYNTAX
mkdir name_directory rmdir name_directory ls[options] names find where criteria what file C [files] more[options] filename tail[options] filename head[options] filename read variable cat file1 file2 |tee file 3| sort

DESCRIPTION
creates directory removes directory lists all files in directory used to locate files on unix system used to determine files type used to view contents of textfile used to display tail end of text file used to display head end of text file read a value from user input reads standard i/p and sends to standard o/p and redirects copy which file u want allows you to search one file or multiple files that contain patterns convert text f iles for printing time based job scheduler in unix unix shell compression program used to create,modify ,access file archives uncompress files that are compressed displays the current date displays the current environment displays total uptime of computer used for text processing sort lines intext file used for translating,or deleting repeated characters used to remove duplicate entries in file

grep

grep[options] pattern[files]

pr crontab compress tar uncompress date env uptime cut sort tr

pr[option] file.. crontab[-u user] file compress[-fv][-b bits][file] tar[option] file name dirname uncompress[-cfv] file date env[name] uptime [-v] cut[option ] filename sort[option] filename tr[option] set 1[set 2] uniq[option][input[output]]

uniq

cal clear time

cal [options] [[[day] month] year] clear time ls

displays calnder as per user request clears the screen shows the current time

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DESCRIPTION

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