The ABCs of UNIX
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I got this as a forward just now :-
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort. W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
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I got this as a forward just now :-
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort. W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
Would anyone care to produce a list that tells us what all these commands do? I know most of them, others however (dd, nice) I don't know :-P James Simplicity Rules!
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Would anyone care to produce a list that tells us what all these commands do? I know most of them, others however (dd, nice) I don't know :-P James Simplicity Rules!
Download a distro of FreeBSD or Linux, then print the MAN pages, for a complete list.
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Download a distro of FreeBSD or Linux, then print the MAN pages, for a complete list.
I know I could do that, but that is *way* too much work just for the few I don't know, even going to the online docs is too much work :-P I think my attempt at post padding has been uncovered! :omg: James Simplicity Rules!
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I know I could do that, but that is *way* too much work just for the few I don't know, even going to the online docs is too much work :-P I think my attempt at post padding has been uncovered! :omg: James Simplicity Rules!
James T. Johnson wrote: I think my attempt at post padding has been uncovered Possibly.
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Would anyone care to produce a list that tells us what all these commands do? I know most of them, others however (dd, nice) I don't know :-P James Simplicity Rules!
From memory, dd is used to copy blocks of data from one file or device to another (a very flexable - and potentially dangerous - little utility), while nice is used to adjust the priority of a process. --------_**
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I got this as a forward just now :-
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort. W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: H is for halt, which may seem defective. Funny, yet true. -:suss:Matt Newman / Windows XP Activist:suss: -Sonork ID: 100.11179:BestSnowman
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I got this as a forward just now :-
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort. W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
The rumours that I am an AI bot are absolutely false. These rumours have been propogated by *them* to focus all the attention on to me, while *their* bots take over the planet. Thank y%%%% Divide by zero. Cannot proceed. Abort(y/y)?
awk: text parser biff: mail checker cc: C compiler dd: disk sector copier emacs: big ol' text editor fsck: file system checker grep: searches files for text halt: shuts down system indent: C code beautifier join: ? kill: kills a process lex: text parser/analyzer more: shows a file one screen at a time [note: less is an enhanced more] nice: runs a process at low priority od: ? passwd: changes your password quota: checks your disk quota ranlib: ? spell: spell checker(?) true: used in shell scripts, like "echo Y | commandhere" in DOS uniq: reads a file or stdin line-by-line and outputs nonduplicate lines vi: big ol' text editor that's a bitch and a half to learn whoami: shows user name X: Unix GUI yes: see true zcat: uncompresses a compressed file to stdout --Mike-- Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying" Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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awk: text parser biff: mail checker cc: C compiler dd: disk sector copier emacs: big ol' text editor fsck: file system checker grep: searches files for text halt: shuts down system indent: C code beautifier join: ? kill: kills a process lex: text parser/analyzer more: shows a file one screen at a time [note: less is an enhanced more] nice: runs a process at low priority od: ? passwd: changes your password quota: checks your disk quota ranlib: ? spell: spell checker(?) true: used in shell scripts, like "echo Y | commandhere" in DOS uniq: reads a file or stdin line-by-line and outputs nonduplicate lines vi: big ol' text editor that's a bitch and a half to learn whoami: shows user name X: Unix GUI yes: see true zcat: uncompresses a compressed file to stdout --Mike-- Actual sign at the laundromat I go to: "No tinting or dying" Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.
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Would anyone care to produce a list that tells us what all these commands do? I know most of them, others however (dd, nice) I don't know :-P James Simplicity Rules!
awk- use PERL instead...biff- notify incoming mail.cc- C compiler. Use gcc...dd- copies one file to another. The nice thing is that there are tons of switches to perform converting (block size, concatenating, ASCII/EBCDIC, case, padding)emacs- editor and psychoanalyst :)fsck- file system checkgrep- pattern searchinghalt- syncs filesystem, stop processorindent- C prettyprinterjoin- have no idea.. database?kill- kills process. Use kill -9 for more powerlex- if you want to build a compilermore- newer than lessnice- what it sounds like. Putting processes at lower priorityod- octal, char or hex dump of filespasswd- changing password, obvoiuslyquota- user disk quotaranlib- have no idea..spell- spellchecktrue- true.uniq- delete all duplicate lines in a flie.vi- editor. It is really quite easy to quit, :wq or ZZ, unless you have forgotten if you are in command mode or edit modewhoami- for forgetful usersX- not used by real linux hackerszcat- uses Lempel-Ziv. No W to feed Unisys... /moliate