find
- locate file (i.e. find . -name *.tex -print)info
- start the info explorer programman
- find manual information about commandswhatis
- describe what a command iswhereis
- locate source, binary, or man page for a program
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exit
- terminate a shell (see "man sh" or "man csh") logout
- sign off; end session (C shell and bash shell only;)passwd
- change login passwordrlogin
- log in remotely to another UNIX systemssh
- secure shellslogin
- secure version of rloginyppasswd
- change login password in yellow pages
mail
- send and receive mailmesg
- permit or deny terminal messages and talk requestspine
- send and receive mailtalk
- talk to another logged-in userwrite
- write to another logged-in user
as
- assembler, specific to each machine architectureawk
- pattern scanning and processing languagebc
- online calculatorcsh
- C shell command interpreterkill
- kill a process(do no apply to daemons)(required PID of the app)killall
- kill all the process(do no apply to daemons)(required PID of the app)make
- maintain large programsnice
- run a command at low priority (see "man nice" or "man csh")perl
- Popular script interpreter
emacs
- screen-oriented text editorpico
- screen-oriented text editor (renamed called nano)sed
- stream-oriented text editorvi
- full-screen text editorvim
- full-screen text editor ("vi-improved")nano
- Nano text Editor
mount/unmount
- mount/unmount removable mediacd
- change working directorychmod
- change the protection of a file or directorychown
- change owner (or group) of a file or directorychgrp
- change group of a file or directorycmp
- compare two filescomm
- select/reject lines common to two sorted filescp
- copy filescrypt
- encrypt/decrypt files (CCWF only)diff
- compare the contents of two ASCII filesfile
- determine file typegrep
- search a file for a patterngzip
- compress or expand filesln
- make a link to a filels
- list the contents of a directoryls -1
- list the contents of a directory one by linelsof
- list of open filesopen -a
- Open file with the specific applicatiobmkdir
- create a directorymv
- move or rename files and directoriespwd
- show the full pathname of your working directoryquota
- display disk usage and limitsrm
- delete (remove) filesrmdir
- delete (remove) directoriesstat
- status of file (i.e. last access)sync
- flush filesystem bufferssort
- sort or merge filestar
- create or extract archivestee
- copy input to standard output and other filestr
- translate charactersumask
- change default file protectionsuncompress
- restore compressed fileuniq
- report (or delete) repeated lines in a filewc
- count lines, words, and characters in a file
cat
- show the contents of a file; catenate filesfold
- fold long lines to fit output devicehead
- show first few lines of a filelpq
- examine the printer spooling queuelpr
- print a filelprm
- remove jobs from the printer spooling queuemore
- display a file, one screen at a timeless
- like more with more featurespage
- like "more", but prints screens top to bottompr
- paginate a file for printingtail
- show the last part of a filezcat
- display a compressed filexv
- show print, manipulate imagesgv
- show ps and pdf files
ftp
- transfer files between network hostsrsync
- fast and flexible sync between computersscp
- secure version of rcpcurl
- transfer data from or to a server
alias
- define synonym commandschquota
- change disk quota on ACITS UNIX systemschsh
- change default login shellclear
- clear terminal screenecho
- echo argumentspbm
- portable bitmap manipulation programspopd
- pop the directory stack (C shell only)pushd
- push directory on stack (C shell only)script
- make typescript of terminal sessionsetenv
- set an environment variable (C shell only)stty
- set terminal options
netstat
- show network statusrsh
- run shell or command on another UNIX systemssh
- secure-shell version of rsh
bg
- put suspended process into backgroundfg
- bring process into foregroundjobs
- list processes^y
- suspend process at next input request^z
- suspend current process
ps aux|grep {path of the app}
- show the PID of the app(use with top)dmesg
- Display the messages from the kernel bufferclock
- determine processor timedate - show date and time
df
- summarize free disk spacedu
- summarize disk space usedenv
- display environmentfinger
- look up user informationhistory
- list previously issued commandslast
- indicate last login of userslpq
- examine spool queuemanpath
- show search path for man pagesprintenv
- print out environmentps
- show process statuspwd
- print full pathname of working directoryset
- set shell variables (C shell, bash, or ksh)spend
- lists year-to-date ACITS UNIX chargesstty
- set terminal optionstime
- timing programstop
- list top cpu processesuptime
- show system load, how long system has been upw
- show who is on system, what command each job is executingwho
- show who is logged onto the systemwhois
- Internet user name directory servicewhoami
- who owns the shell