Brief overview of Unix and Linux commands
Below is a listing of each of the Unix and Linux commands currently listed on Computer Hope and a brief explanation of what each of the commands do. This is a full listing which means not all the below commands will work with your distribution and may also not work because of your privileges. Clicking on any of the commands will display additional help and information about that command.
Command
Description
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ua2p.htma2p
Creates a
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/perl.htmPerl script from an awk script.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uac.htmac
Prints statistics about users’ connect time.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/access.htmaccess
Checks real user’s permissions for a file.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/agrep.htmagrep
Version of the grep utility which also matches approximate patterns.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ualias.htmalias
Create a name for another command or long command string.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/apropos.htmapropos
Searches the manual pages for a keyword or regular expression.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/apt-cache.htmapt-cache
Queries the APT software package cache.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/apt-get.htmapt-get
Command line tool for working with APT software packages.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/aptitude.htmaptitude
Text-based front-end for the APT package management system.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uar.htmar
Maintain portable archive or library.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uarch.htmarch
Display the architecture of the current host.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/arp.htmarp
Manipulate the system
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/arp.htmARP cache.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uas.htmas
An assembler.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/aspell.htmaspell
Interactive spell checker.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/uat.htmat
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