Some UNIX Commands - Arranged ALPHABETICALLY

Hardware/System disk files/directories

network internet printers

XWindows Programming miscellaneous

Administrative/System

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

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The symbol indicates a pointer to a more detailed description of the function.
FreeBSD Commands  OpenBSD Commands  NetBSD Commands  Linux Commands 

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Special Keystrokes

- M -

  MACHINE (hdwe/system) - Display Computer Hardware Information
MAN (miscellaneous) -
MESG (miscellaneous) - Display/Do Not Display Messages from other users
• MFORMAT (disk) - Add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted diskette

  MKDIR (files/directories) - Create a Directory

• MKNOD (hdwe/systm) - Make Special Files
• MKFS (disk) - Build a Linux File System
• MDKFS (disk) - Build a DOS File System
• MLABEL (disk) - Make an MSDOS Volume Label

MORE (hdwe/systm) -
• MOUNT (disk) - Mount and Unmount Filesystems

MV (files/directories) - Move a File

- N -

NM (programming) -

- P -

  PASSWD (Administrative/System) - Change a user's password
PASTE (files/directories) -
  PING (network) - Send packets to TCP/IP addresses
pkg_info (hdwe/systm) - ?????
  POWEROFF
PR (printing) -
  PW
  PWD (files/directories) - Display the Name of the Current/Working Directory

- Q -

  QUOTA
  QUOTAON
  QUOTAOFF
  QUOTACHECK

- R -

• RAM (disk) - RAM Disk Device Information

RDJPGCOM (files/directories) - Display Text Comments from a JPEG File
  REBOOT
 RESET (hdwe/systm) - Reset the Terminal
 REPQUOTA
REV (files/directories) -
  RM (files/directories) - Delete/Erase a File
  RMDIR (files/directories) - Remove an Empty Directory
  RMGROUP
  RMUSER (Administrative/System) - Remove a user from the system
RUPTIME (network) -
RUSERS (network) -
RWHO (network) -

- S -

• SELECTION (hdwe/systm) - Cut and Paste Utility for Linux Virtual Consoles
• SETFDPRM (disk) - Sets User-Provided Floppy Disk Parameters

  SETQUOTA

• SETSERIAL (hdwe/systm) - Get/Set Linux Serial Port Information

SETTERM (hdwe/systm) - SetTerminal Attributes
SHUTDOWN (Administrative/System) - Close Down the System
SORT (files/directories) -
SPLIT (files/directories) - Split a File Into Pieces
STARTX (XWindows) - starts the XWindows system
• STTY (hdwe/systm) - Change and Display Terminal Line Settings

SUM (files/directories) -

- T -

TAIL (files/directories) -
TALK (network) -
  TAR (files/directories) - Tape ARchiver; manipulate "tar" archive files
TFTP (internet) -
TFTPD (internet) -
• TLOAD (hdwe/systm) - Graphic Representation of System Load Average

  TOP (hdwe/systm) - Display Top CPU Processes
  TOUCH (files/directories) - Change a File's timestamps
TPUT (hdwe/systm) - ???
TRACEROUTE (internet) -
TTY (network) -
• TTYS (hdwe/systm) - Serial Terminal Lines

TUNELP (printing) -

- U -

UMOUNT (disk) - Unmount a Filesystem
  UNAME (hdwe/systm) - Display System Information
  UPTIME (hdwe/systm) - Display How Long the System has been running
  USERADD (Administrative/System) - Add a new user to the system
  USERDEL (Administrative/System) - Remove a user from the system
  USERMOD (Administrative/System) - ???
  USERS (Administrative/System) - View a list of users logged into the system

- V -

  VIDCONTROL (Administrative/System) -
  VIPW (Administrative/System) - Start VI editor and open /etc/master.passwd

- W -

  W (Administrative/System) - Summarize activity & logins
WALL (network) -
  WHEREIS (hdwe/systm) - Locate the Binary, Source, and Manual Page files for a Command
  WHICH (hdwe/systm) - Show full path of Commands
  WHO (Administrative/System) - View a list of users logged into the system
  WHOAMI (administrative/system) -

- X -

XFD (XWindows) - displays a specific font
XLSFONTS (XWindows) - lists the names of all available fonts

- Y -

- Z -

ZCAT
ZIP (files/directories) -
ZOO (files/directories) -