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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Unix - Useful Commands

This quick guide lists commands, including a syntax and a brief description. For more detail, use −
$man command

Files and Directories

These commands allow you to create directories and handle files.

Manipulating data

The contents of files can be compared and altered with the following commands.

Compressed Files

Files may be compressed to save space. Compressed files can be created and examined.
S.No. Command & Description
1 compress
Compresses files
2 gunzip
Helps uncompress gzipped files
3 gzip
GNU alternative compression method
4 uncompress
Helps uncompress files
5 unzip
List, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
6 zcat
Cat a compressed file
7 zcmp
Compares compressed files
8 zdiff
Compares compressed files
9 zmore
File perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text

Getting Information

Various Unix manuals and documentation are available on-line. The following Shell commands give information −
S.No. Command & Description
1 apropos
Locates commands by keyword lookup
2 info
Displays command information pages online
2 man
Displays manual pages online
3 whatis
Searches the whatis database for complete words
4 yelp
GNOME help viewer

Network Communication

These following commands are used to send and receive files from a local Unix hosts to the remote host around the world.
S.No. Command & Description
1 ftp
File transfer program
2 rcp
Remote file copy
3 rlogin
Remote login to a Unix host
4 rsh
Remote shell
5 tftp
Trivial file transfer program
6 telnet
Makes terminal connection to another host
7 ssh
Secures shell terminal or command connection
8 scp
Secures shell remote file copy
9 sftp
Secures shell file transfer program
Some of these commands may be restricted at your computer for security reasons.

Messages between Users

The Unix systems support on-screen messages to other users and world-wide electronic mail −
S.No. Command & Description
1 evolution
GUI mail handling tool on Linux
2 mail
Simple send or read mail program
3 mesg
Permits or denies messages
4 parcel
Sends files to another user
5 pine
Vdu-based mail utility
6 talk
Talks to another user
7 write
Writes message to another user

Programming Utilities

The following programming tools and languages are available based on what you have installed on your Unix.

Misc Commands

These commands list or alter information about the system −

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