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Quick Reference

This chapter is a quick reference to commands listed elsewhere in the document.

file commands
cp source destination Copy the file from source to destination.
mv source destination Move the file from source to destination.
cd [path] Change the current directory to path. If path is not specified, change to home directory.
pwd Print the working directory.
ls List the files in the current directory.
less file show the contents of file

filesystem commands
fs listquota List your current disk usage.
fs listacl List the Access Control List (ACL) of the current directory.
fs setacl path user rights Set the Access Control List (ACL) of path for user to rights. See table [*] for the list of rights. The most important rights are the aliases read, write and none

help commands
man command Get help for command
apropos topic List command dealing with topic

communication commands
finger user@host displays information about user on the machine host
who lists users logged in to your machine

miscellaneous commands
grep string file1 file2 ... displays all the lines in file1 file2 ... that contain string
cal month year display a calendar for the specified month and year
ispell file check the spelling of a document
script file send all screen I/O to file until exit is typed.


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Michelle Craft 2008-01-23