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Basic Unix Commands
Control characters
- [ctrl C] - kill job
- [ctrl D] - end of file
- [ctrl Q] - continue output
- [ctrl R] - redraw current command line
- [ctrl S] - stop output
- [ctrl U] - erase to beginning of line
- [ctrl Z] - suspend current job
Commands
- cat file1 - print the contents of file1 onto the terminal screen.
- cd dir1 - change directory to dir1. cd with no argument changes back to the user's home directory.
- chmod - change protection of files. chmod o-r file1 makes file1 unreadable to people outside of the owner's group. See man chmod for more details.
- cp file1 file2 - make a copy of file1 and call it file2.
- compress huge_file - conserves disk space. uncompress huge_file restores original file condition.
- date - print the current date and time.
- find - find files that match certain characteristics. For example, find . -name test.tex -print searches down through all your directories to find files named test.tex and will print their path names when it finds them. see man find for more details.
- finger user - look up information about the named user
- grep word file1 - look through file1 for word.
- grep -l word * - look through all the files in the current directory and print the names of those files which contain word.
- gsu groupname - change to group account.
- head file1 - print the first 10 lines of file1.
- jobs - show any background jobs.
- kill %1 - kill background job number 1.
- leave 1030 - reminds you (at 10:25)