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UNIX LINUX AND VARIANTS
Additional information and help with UNIX / Linux and variants

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UNIX ABCs
Linux ABCs
DOS vs. Unix
UNIX commands
UNIX Top 10 commands
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UNIX ABCs

UNIX which is not an acronym was developed by some of the members of the Multics team at the bell labs starting in the late 1960's by many of the same people who help created the C programming language. The UNIX today however is the not just the work of a couple of programmers. Many other organizations, institutes and various other individuals contributed significant additions to the system we now know to day.

See additional UNIX information and variants and information on the UNIX variants page.

Linux ABCs

Developed by Linus Torvalds and further elaborated by a number of developers throughout the world Linux (lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/,_not_/li:'nuhks) is a freely available multitasking and multiuser operating system. From the outset, Linux was placed under General Public License (GPL). The system can be distributed, used and expanded free of charge. In this way, developers have access to all the source codes, thus being able to integrate new functions easily or to find and eliminate programming bugs quickly. Thereby drivers for new adapters (SCSI controller, graphics cards, etc.) can be integrated very rapidly.

See additional Linux information and variants and information on the Linux variants page.

DOS VS. UNIX

If you are able to navigate through MS-DOS. You will be able to pick up on the navigation of UNIX in the following chart we have listed several of the various similarities of DOS and UNIX.

DOS	UNIX
attrib	chmod
backup	tar
dir	ls
cls	clear
copy	cp
del	rm
deltree	rm -R rmdir
edit	vi pico
format	fdformat mount umount
move / rename	mv
type	less <file>
cd	cd chdir
more < file	more file
md	mkdir
win	startx

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Linux / UNIX COMMANDS

A	a2p \| alias \| ac \| ar \| arch \| as \| at \| awk
B	basename \| bc \| bdiff \| bfs \| bg \| biff \| break \| bs \| bye
C	cal \| calendar \| cancel \| cat \| cc \| cd \| chdir \| checkeq \| checknr \| chgrp \| chkey \| chmod \| chown \| cksum \| clear \| cls \| cmp \| col \| comm \| compress \| continue \| copy \| cp \| cpio \| crontab \| csh \| csplit \| ctags \| cu \| cut
D	date \| dc \| df \| deroff \| diff \| dircmp \| dpost \| du
E	echo \| ed \| edit \| egrep \| elm \| emacs \| enable \| env \| eqn \| ex \| exit \| expand \| expr
F	fc \| fg \| fgrep \| file \| find \| finger \| fmt \| fold \| for \| foreach \| ftp
G	getfacl \| gprof \| grep
H	halt \| hash \| hashstat \| head \| help \| history \| hostname
I	id \| ifconfig \| isalist
J	jobs \| join
K	keylogin \| kill \| ksh
L	ld \| ldd \| lex \| ln \| lo \| login \| logname \| logout \| lp \| lpadmin \| lpc \| lpq \| lpr \| lprm \| lpstat \| ls
M	mach \| mail \| mailcompat \| mailx \| make \| man \| mesg \| mkdir \| more \| mount \| mt \| mv
N	neqn \| netstat \| newalias \| newform \| newgrp \| nice \| niscat \| nischmod \| nischown \| nischttl \| nisdefaults \| nisgrep \| nismatch \| nispasswd \| nistbladm \| nroff
O	on \| onintr \| optisa
P	pack \| pagesize \| passwd \| paste \| pax \| pcat \| perl \| pg \| pgrep \| pico \| ping \| pkill \| poweroff \| pr \| priocntl \| printf \| ps \| pvs \| pwd
Q	quit
R	rcp \| red \| rehash \| remsh \| repeat \| rlogin \| rm \| rmail \| rmdir \| rn \| rpcinfo \| rsh
S	s2p \| sag \| sar \| script \| sdiff \| sed \| sendmail \| set \| setenv \| setfacl \| settime \| sh \| sleep \| sort \| spell \| split \| stop \| stty \| su \| sysinfo
T	tabs \| tail \| tar \| tbl \| tcopy \| telnet \| time \| timex \| touch \| tput \| tr \| traceroute \| troff
U	ul \| umask \| unalias \| unhash \| uname \| uncompress \| uniq \| unmount \| unpack \| until
V	vacation \| vedit \| vgrind \| vi \| view
W	wait \| wc \| while \| who \| whois
X	X \| xfd \| xlsfonts \| xset \| xterm \| xrdb
Y	yacc \| yppasswd
Z	zcat

* In addition to each of the above explanations additional information about a specified command for your UNIX or Linux variant can be found by using the man command.

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