lo

Logs you out of the system. Always log out, if you dont it could be seen by others.



pico

Starts the text editor application, pico. 

pine



pico filename 

Either creates a new file named filename or edits the file named filename.



pine

Starts the e-mailer proggie.



man command

Displays help or info about a certain command.  If you want to know what 'cd' command does, type: man cd - simple right?





mkdir subdirectory1 

Creates a new directory, or folder as I prefer, called subdirectory1.



rmdir subdirectory 

Removes the directory named subdirectory



cd subdirectoryname 

Changes current directory to the one specified.



cd 

Changes directory to home dir.



cd ..

Changes the directory up one level, or back to the previous dir.



ls

Lists content of current dir.



ls -l 

Long version of directory listing.



ls -C 

Lists files in vertical manner.



ls -l 

This command lists the directory contents in long format. Information similar to the following is displayed when you issue this command. 

                                                                                                      

                                  size               file/dir name                                                                                                                                                               total 3                             \                     /

-rw-------     1 jdoe    staff     1024 Sept 4 10:35   filename

drwxr-xr-x     2 jdoe    staff     2048 Jan 24 11:28   Mail/

drwxr-xr-x     3 jdoe    staff     2048 Jan 23 09:28   News/

    |                 |     \        \                   |              

file info     links   owner  staff/stud    date changed



ls -la  

Lists hidden files.



cat filename 

Shows entire content of file called filename.



cat > newfile 

Create new file called newfile



cat f1 > f2 

Copies f1 to f2



cat f1 f2 > f3 

Places concatenation of f1 and f2 in f3



cat f1 >> f3 

Appends f1 to f3 



cat f1 | sort 

Sorts the lines of f1



cat f1 f2 | sort > f3 

Concatenates f1 and f2, sorts the result and places it in f3



pg filename 

List file one page at a time.  Press space to see next page.



more filename 

Displays file one screen at a time.  Same as above.



tail filename 

Displays last 10 lines of file.



mv file1 file2 

Rename file1 to file2.



cp file1 file2 

Copy file1 to file2.



lpr file1 

Print file1 to line printer.



ls | lpr 

Print output (i.e., directory) to line printer.



tprint file1 

Print file1 to local printer.



diff textfile1 textfile2 

Compare textfile1 to textfile2.



cmp binfile1 binfile2 

Compare binary files.



passwd 

Change password.



rm filename 

Remove file.



who 

Display names of users on system.



who | more 

Shows who is logged on right now.



who am i 

Tells you who you are.



finger username 

Display information about specific user.



fs quota

Indicates disk space used and left.



fs listquota

Additional info about your disk quota.



pwd 

Displays the present working dir.





mv old-filename new-filename 

Renames a file.



mv old-directory-name new-directory-name 

Moves contents of one dir to another.

	

?

Displays help