Can anyone supply me with sample Unix/Linux commands and their results?

Question

Can anyone supply me with sample Unix/Linux commands and their results?

Answer 1

Hi

There are literally hundreds of commands and derivatives in Unix/Linux

I can recommend: "A Practical Guide to LINUX Command, Editors and Shell Programming" by Mark G. Sobell Pub. by Prentice Hall.

In the mean time a couple more in addition to above:

mkdir <new/dir/name> will make a new directory

cd <new/dir> will change to a new directory

chmod +x <filename> will make a file executable.

ls will list the contents of  the current directory.

cat will display the contents of a text file.

Hope this helps. Good Luck

G

Answer 2

rm *  -- Destroys all your data.  done with root access at the top level trashes your whole installation.

tar -cvjpf <filename> creates bzipped archive file <filename>.tar.bz2 with all the same permissions as file or directory filename.

tar -xvzpf <filename>.tar.gz creates file or directory <filename> using the contents of <filename>tar.gz

man <command>  Gives you information about many UNIX commands.  Open a shell window and use it for most of these.

info <command> gives you more information about fewer commands.  Unlike man you can browse what it tells you about by typing info

apropos <command> the functional equivalent of typing man -k <command>.  Tells you what man pages specific commands appear on.

grep searches for a specified string in a stream (file or string) submitted to it.  Thus on my system:

jplatt@Hugo2 ~ $ dmesg | grep intel

yields

intel_rng: FWH not detected

intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 59477 usecs

intel8x0: clocking to 48000

ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <[e-mail]>

I don't feel like explaining dmesg.  Type "man dmesg".

Anyhow, those are commands.

Answer 3

If you simply want command equivalents for different versions of unix then consult the rosetta stone

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html