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UNIX/Linux Commands

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Contents
Shell Intro
Command Format
Shell I/O
Command I/O
Command Overview

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Shell Intro
A system program that allows a user to execute:
shell functions (internal commands)
other programs (external commands)
shell scripts
Linux/UNIX has a bunch of them, the most
common are
tcsh, an expanded version of csh (Bill Joy, Berkley, Sun)
bash, one of the most popular and rich in functionality
shells, an expansion of sh (AT&T Bell Labs)
ksh, Korn Shell
zhs
...

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Command Format

Format: command name and 0 or more arguments:


% commandname [arg1] ... [argN]
By % sign I mean prompt here and hereafter.
Arguments can be
options (switches to the command to indicate a mode of
operation) ; usually prefixed with a hyphen (-) or two (--) in
GNU style
non-options, or operands, basically the data to work with
(actual data, or a file name)

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Shell I/O
Shell is a power-user interface, so the user interacts with
the shell by typing in the commands.
The shell interprets the commands, that may produce some
results, they go back to the user and the control is given back
to the user when a command completes (in general).
In the case of external commands, shell executes actual
programs that may call functions of the OS kernel.
These system commands are often wrapped around a so-
called system calls, to ask the kernel to perform an operation
(usually privileged) on your behalf.

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Command I/O
Input to shell:
Command name and arguments typed by the user
Input to a command:
Keyboard, file, or other commands
Standard input: keyboard.
Standard output: screen.
These STDIN and STDOUT are often together referred to as a
terminal.
Both standard input and standard output can be redirected
from/to a file or other command.
File redirection:
< input >> output append
> output

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man

Manual Pages
The first command to remember
Contains info about almost everything :-)
other commands
system calls
c/library functions
other utils, applications, configuration files
To read about man itself type:
% man man
NOTE: unfortunately theres no
% man woman ...

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which
Displays a path name of a command.
Searches a path environmental variable for the command and
displays the absolute path.
To find which tcsh and bash are actually in use, type:
% which tcsh
% which bash
% man which for more details

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chsh
Change Login Shell
Login shell is the shell that interprets commands after
you logged in by default.
You can change it with chsh (provided that your system
admin allowed you to do so).
To list all possible shells, depending on implementation:
% chsh -l
% cat /etc/shells
% chsh with no arguments will prompt you for the shell.

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whereis
Display all locations of a command (or some other binary,
man page, or a source file).
Searchers all directories to find commands that match
whereis argument
% whereis tcsh

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General Commands

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passwd
Change your login password.
A very good idea after you got a new one.
Its usually a paranoid program asking your password to have
at least 6 chars in the password, at least two alphabetical
and one numerical characters. Some other restrictions (e.g.
dictionary words or previous password similarity) may apply.
Depending on a privilege, one can change users and group
passwords as well as real name, login shell, etc.
% man passwd

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date
Guess what :-)
Displays dates in various formats
% date
% date -u
in GMT
% man date

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cal

Calendar
for month % cal current month
entire year % cal 2 2000 Feb 2000, leap
Years range: 1 - 9999 year
No year 0 % cal 2 2100 not a leap year
Calendar was corrected % cal 2 2400 leap year
in 1752 - removed 11 % cal 9 1752 11 days skipped
days % cal 0 error
% cal 2002 whole year

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clear

Clears the screen


Theres an alias for it: Ctrl+L
Example sequence:
% cal
% clear
% cal
Ctrl+L

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sleep

Sleeping is doing nothing for some time.


Usually used for delays in shell scripts.
% sleep 2 2 seconds pause

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Command Grouping

Semicolon: ;
Often grouping acts as if it were a single command, so an
output of different commands can be redirected to a file:
% (date; cal; date) > out.txt

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alias

Defined a new name for a command


% alias
with no arguments lists currently active aliases
% alias newcommand oldcommand
defines a newcommand
% alias cl cal 2003
% cl

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unalias

Removes alias
Requires an argument.
% unalias cl

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history

Display a history of % !n
recently used commands repeat command n in the
% history history
all commands in the % !-1
history repeat last command = !!
% history 10 % !-2
last 10 repeat second last
% history -r 10 command
reverse order % !ca
% !! repeat last command that
repeat last command begins with ca

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redirect

Standard Output : Most command line programs that


display their results on standard output. This can be
redirected using > character. When >> is used the results are
appended, the new results are added to the end of the file.
ls > filename
ls >> filename
Standard Input : Many commands can accept input from a
facility called standard input, but like standard output, it can
be redirected using < character
sort < file_list.txt
sort < file_list.txt > sorted_file.txt

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Pipes

What's a pipe?
is a method of interprocess communication (IPC)
in shells a '|' symbol used
it means that the output of one program (on one
side of a pipe) serves as an input for the
program on another end.
a set of "piped" commands is often called a
pipeline
Why it's useful?
Because by combining simple OS utilities one
can easily solve more complex tasks

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ps

The ps (i.e., process status) command is used to provide


information about the currently running processes, including
their process identification numbers (PIDs).
A process, also referred to as a task, is an executing (i.e.,
running) instance of a program. Every process is assigned a
unique PID by the system. The basic syntax of ps is
ps [options]
The four items are displayed PID, TTY, TIME and CMD. TIME
is the amount of CPU time process has been running. CMD is
the name of the command that launched the process. TTY is
the name of the console or terminal.
-a all users; -u detailed info.

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top

top provides an ongoing look at processor activity in real


time. It displays a listing of the most CPU-intensive tasks on
the system, and can provide an interactive interface for
manipulating processes.
It can sort the tasks by CPU usage, memory usage and
runtime, can be better configured than the standard top from
the procps suite.
Most features can either be selected by an interactive
command or by specifying the feature in the personal or
system-wide configuration file.
-d delay between scrren update; -p pid to monitor.

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tee

Tee command is used to store and view (both at the same


time) the output of any other command.
Tee command writes to the STDOUT, and to a file at a time.
ls => will display output
ls > file => will send output to file
ls | tee file => will display output and send it to file
ls -l | tee file.txt | sed 's/old/new/
Will send ls output to file and to sed too.

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kill

The kill command is used on Linux and other Unix-


like operating systems to terminate processes without having to
log out or reboot (i.e., restart) the computer.
The syntax for kill is
kill [signal or option] PID(s)
Process Identification Number.
The kill command has a misleading name because it does not
actually kill processes. Rather, it sends signals to them. Each
process is supplied with a set of standard signal handlers by the
operating system in order to deal with incoming signals. When
no signal is explicitly included in the command, signal 15,
named SIGTERM, is sent by default. If this fails, the
stronger signal 9, called SIGKILL, should be used. For example,
the following command would nearly guarantee that process 485
would be killed:
kill -9 485

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apropos

Search man pages for a % apropos date


substring. % man -k date
% apropos word % apropos password
Equivalent:
% man -k word

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exit / logout
Exit from your login session.
% exit
% logout

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shutdown

Causes system to shutdown or reboot cleanly.


May require superuser privileges
% shutdown -h now - stop
% shutdown -r now - reboot

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Files

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ls

List directory contents % ls -F


Has whole bunch of append / to dirs and *
options, see man ls for to executables
details. % ls -l
% ls long format
all files except those % ls -al
starting with a . % ls -lt
% ls -a sort by modification time
all (latest - earliest)
% ls -A % ls -ltr
all without . and .. reverse

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cat

Display and concatenate files.


% cat
Will read from STDIN and print to STDOT every line you
enter.
% cat file1 [file2] ...
Will concatenate all files in one and print them to
STDOUT
% cat > filename
Will take whatever you type from STDIN and will put it
into the file filename
To exit cat or cat > filename type Ctrl+D to
indicate EOF (End of File).

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more / less

Pagers to display contents of large files page by page or scroll


line by line up and down.
Have a lot of viewing options and search capability.
Interactive. To exit: q

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less

less ("less is more") a bit more smart than the more


command
to display contents of a file:
% less filename
To display line numbers:
% less -N filename
To display a prompt:
% less -P"Press 'q' to quit" filename
Combine the two:
% less -NP"Blah-blah-blah" filename
For more information:
% man less

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touch

By touching a file you either create it if it did not exists (with


0 length).
Or you update its last modification and access times.
There are options to override the default behavior.
% touch file
% man touch

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cp
Copies files / directories.
% cp [options] <source> <destination>
% cp file1 file2
% cp file1 [file2] /directory
Useful option: -i to prevent overwriting existing files and prompt
the user to confirm.

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mv

Moves or renames files/directories.


% mv <source> <destination>
The <source> gets removed
% mv file1 dir/
% mv file1 file2
rename
% mv file1 file2 dir/
% mv dir1 dir2

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rm

Removes file(s) and/or directories.


% rm file1 [file2] ...
% rm -r dir1 [dir2] ...
% rm -r file1 dir1 dir2 file4 ...

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script

Writes a log (a typescript) of whatever


happened in the terminal to a file.
% script [file]
% script
all log is saved into a file named typescript
% script file
all log is saved into a file named file
To exit logging, type:
% exit

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find

Looks up a file in a directory tree.


% find . -name name
% find . \(-name w* -or -name W* \)

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mkdir

Creates a directory.
% mkdir newdir
Often people make an alias of md for it.

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cd

Changes your current directory to a new one.


% cd /some/other/dir
Absolute path
% cd subdir
Assuming subdir is in the current directory.
% cd
Returns you to your home directory.

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pwd

Displays personal working directory, i.e. your current


directory.
% pwd

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rmdir

Removes a directory.
% rmdir dirname
Equivalent:
% rm -r dirname

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ln

Symbolic link or a shortcut in M$ terminology.


% ln s <real-name> <fake-name>

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chmod

Changes file permissions


Possible invocations
% chmod 600 filename
-rw------- 1 user group 2785 Feb 8 14:18
filename
(a bit not intuitive where 600 comes from)
% chmod u+rw filename
(the same thing, more readable)
For the assignment:
% chmod u+x myshellscript
(mysshellscript is now executable)
-rwx------ 1 user group 2785 Feb 8 14:18 myshellscript

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grep

Searches its input for a pattern.


The pattern can be a simple substring or a complex
regular expression.
If a line matches, its directed to STDOUT;
otherwise, its discarded.
% echo blah-foo | grep blah
Will print the matching line
% echo blah-foo | grep zee
Will not.
See a separate grep tutorial.

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.login and .shrc

You have two special files in your directory which make


customizing your session easy: .login, which is read every
time you log in; and .cshrc, which is read each time you begin
a new csh or tcsh shell.
In home directory, simple .login and .cshrc files may have
been installed for you by the system administrators; you are
free to change these files.
If they aren't already in place, you can put them there simply
by creating a text file with those names.
A pound sign (#) indicates comments and are not read by the
system.

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cont

the .cshrc fileall commands that need to be executed in each


new shell:
all set comands, including path setting
all setenv commands
alias commands
a umask command
Some Suggestions for your .cshrc file
set autolist
alias h history
alias work cd /proj/myproj/mangeshk/
alias ll ls lrt

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Thank you

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