GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary
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Symbols

!, General Shell Tips
!!, The command-line history
!-n, The command-line history
!n, The command-line history
!string, The command-line history
$, General Shell Tips, Regular Expressions
%cpu, Controlling Processes
%mem, Controlling Processes
&&, Performing more than one command
&>, Usage
*, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
--color=auto, General Shell Tips
--date=, Working with files and folders, Date/Time/Calendars
--forest, Controlling Processes
--h, Help
--help, Help
--mirror, Internet Specific Commands
--verbose, Mathematical tools
-?, Help
-a, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Finding Text Within Files, Internet Specific Commands, Working with MS-DOS files
-b, Working with files and folders, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files
-c, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, Some basic Security Tools, tar (tape archiver)
-CONT, Controlling Processes
-d, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Date/Time/Calendars, Text manipulation tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, File Permissions
-e, General Shell Tips, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
-exec, Finding files, Finding information about the system
-F, General Shell Tips, Help, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Controlling services, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools, tar (tape archiver), Scheduling Commands to run in the background
-format, Graphics tools (command line based)
-g, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools
-geometry, Graphics tools (command line based)
-h, Help, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
-HUP, Controlling Processes
-i, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, File Permissions
-iregex, Finding files
-jj, tar (tape archiver)
-k, Working with files and folders, Text manipulation tools
-kill, Controlling Processes
-l, Moving around the filesystem, Finding information about partitions, Controlling Processes, Text Information Tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, File Permissions, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
-lx, Finding information about the system
-m, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Internet Specific Commands
-n, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Internet Specific Commands
-name, Finding files
-nx, Finding information about the system
-o, Finding files
-p, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, tar (tape archiver)
-path, Finding files
-print, Finding files
-prune, Finding files
-q, Finding Text Within Files
-R, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Controlling services, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions
-regex, Finding files
-S, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Date/Time/Calendars, Controlling services
-STOP, Controlling Processes
-t, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, File Permissions, Compression, Working with MS-DOS files, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
-u, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
-v, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Finding Text Within Files, tar (tape archiver), RPM: Redhat Package Management System
-verbose, Graphics tools (command line based)
-w, Text Information Tools, Finding Text Within Files
-x, General Shell Tips, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, tar (tape archiver), Miscellaneous
-y, Date/Time/Calendars
-z, Working with files and folders, tar (tape archiver)
., Moving around the filesystem, Regular Expressions
.*, Regular Expressions
.bz, Compression
.doc, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
.gz, Compression
.h, Conversion tools
.pdf, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
/, Moving around the filesystem
/dev/null, Usage
/etc/groups, Users/Groups
/etc/hosts, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Network Commands
/etc/init.d, Controlling services
/etc/inittab, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
/etc/passwd, Users/Groups, Text manipulation tools
/etc/profile, Security
/etc/resolv.conf, Internet Specific Commands
/proc, Finding information about the system, Finding information about partitions
/proc/net, Network Commands
192.168.0.1, Network Configuration
192.168.0.2, Network Configuration
192.168.1.100, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Network Commands
1MB, Finding information about the system
2>, Usage
:n, Text Viewing Tools
:p, Text Viewing Tools
;, Performing more than one command, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
<, Usage
<<, Usage
>, Usage
>>, Usage
?, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
@, General Shell Tips
[ ], Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
[!], Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
[http://www.linuxexposed.com/Articles/General/Linux Exposed, The UNIX tools philosophy further reading
[http://www.tldp.org/dman pages, Online Manual Page Websites:
[^], Regular Expressions
\, General Shell Tips, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
\r, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
^, Regular Expressions
{ }, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
|, Usage, Regular Expressions
||, Performing more than one command
~, General Shell Tips

A

A, File Permissions
a-z, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
abilities, Virtual Terminals and screen
ability, Graphics tools (command line based)
able, Working with files and folders, Network Configuration , Remote Administration Related, Graphics tools (command line based)
absolute, Moving around the filesystem
Absolute path, Moving around the filesystem
access, The command-line history, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Internet Specific Commands, File Permissions, Miscellaneous
access keys, Conventions used in this guide
access time, File Permissions
accessed, File Permissions
add, General Shell Tips, Finding files, Text manipulation tools, Conversion tools, Mathematical tools, Network Configuration , Internet Specific Commands, Remote Administration Related, Security, File Permissions, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Regular Expressions
addition, Network Configuration
additional, Controlling Processes
address, Network Configuration , Internet Specific Commands
addressed, Contributors
adjust, Working with files and folders
administration, Managing users
administrative, Controlling Processes
administrator, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
administrators, Who would want to read this guide?
admonitions, Conventions used in this guide
advanced, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Editors, Text manipulation tools, Network Commands, Internet Specific Commands, rsync, Working with MS-DOS files
advanced bash scripting, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
advanced bash scripting guide, Text manipulation tools
advancement, Feedback
advantage, Working with files and folders
advice, Feedback, Contributors
affect, Finding Text Within Files
algorithm, rsync
alias, General Shell Tips
aliases, General Shell Tips
allow, General Shell Tips, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools
allowed, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
allows, Virtual Terminals and screen, Controlling services, Text manipulation tools
AllTheWeb, General Further Reading
alpha, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
alphabetic, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
alphabetical, Text manipulation tools
alphabetically, Text manipulation tools
alphanumeric, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
alternative, General Shell Tips, Usage, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Wildcards
alternatively, The command-line history
alternatives, Some basic Security Tools
American text encoding standard, The Unix Tools Philosophy
amount, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text manipulation tools, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
anacron, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
analyze, Miscellaneous
AND, Performing more than one command
antiword, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
antiword homepage, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
append, Moving around the filesystem, Finding information about the system, File Permissions
appendix, Introduction, Who would want to read this guide?
application, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Working with files and folders
apply, Controlling Processes
apropos, Help
apt-get, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
archive, Internet Specific Commands, Archiving Files, Compression
archived, tar (tape archiver)
archives, Compression
archiving, Archiving Files
argument, Working with files and folders, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Miscellaneous
arguments, The command-line history, Working with files and folders
arranged, Graphics tools (command line based)
arrow, The command-line history
arrow keys, The command-line history
art, Conversion tools
article, Contributors
ASCII, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Conversion tools
aspell, Text manipulation tools
assign, Controlling Processes
assist, Working with files and folders, Security
assistance, Resources used to create this document
associated, Help
asterisk, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
at, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
atq, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
atrm, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
Attach, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions)
attempt, General Shell Tips, The command-line history, Regular Expressions
attempting, Controlling Processes
Attempts, Working with files and folders, Network Commands
attribute, File Permissions
attributes, File Permissions
audible, General Shell Tips
author, Feedback, Disclaimer
authored, Who would want to read this guide?, Security
authors, Who would want to read this guide?
authors opinion, Who would want to read this guide?
automated, Some basic Security Tools, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
automates, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
Automatic Command Completion, General Shell Tips
automatically, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders, Working with MS-DOS files
available, Availability of sources, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Controlling services, Users/Groups, Network Commands, Working with MS-DOS files
avoid, Mini-Guides

B

back off, General Shell Tips
Back-Cover, License
background, Controlling Processes, Controlling services
Backgrounds, Controlling Processes
backslash, General Shell Tips, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
bandwidth, rsync
based off, Contributors
bash, Introduction, General Shell Tips, Finding files, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Internet Specific Commands, Specific Further reading
bash scripting, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Specific Further reading
Basic, Finding files, Network Commands, Security, Archiving Files
Bastille Linux, Security
batch, Graphics tools (command line based)
beep, General Shell Tips
beginners, Who would want to read this guide?
beginning, Regular Expressions
bell, General Shell Tips
bg, Controlling Processes
binary, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Text Information Tools
bit, Mathematical tools, File Permissions
bitmap, Graphics tools (command line based)
block, Working with files and folders
blocks, File Permissions, Compression, Working with MS-DOS files
bmp, Working with files and folders
book, Who would want to read this guide?, Availability of sources
bookmarks.html, Internet Specific Commands
boot, Security
bootdisks, Duplicating disks
boots, Security
bootup, Finding information about the system
Bourne-Again-SHell, Introduction
brackets, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
brands, Disclaimer
break key, Controlling Processes
broad-casted, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
broken, Working with files and folders
built, Graphics tools (command line based)
built-in, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
bunch, Compression
burning, Duplicating disks
bytes, Working with files and folders, Text Information Tools
bz* commands, Text Viewing Tools
bzgrep, Text Viewing Tools
bzip2, Text Viewing Tools , tar (tape archiver), Compression
bzip2recover, Compression
bzless, Text Viewing Tools
bzme, Compression

C

cached, Finding information about the system
cal, Date/Time/Calendars
calculator, Mathematical tools
calendar, Date/Time/Calendars
calls, Finding Text Within Files
capital, Text manipulation tools, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
capture, Graphics tools (command line based)
captures, Network Commands
careful, Working with files and folders, File Permissions
carriage, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
carriage returns, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
cat, Usage, Text manipulation tools
catch, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
cause, General Shell Tips, Moving around the filesystem, Controlling Processes, Internet Specific Commands
causes, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
caution, Disclaimer
cd, General Shell Tips, Moving around the filesystem, Duplicating disks
cdrecord, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
cdrom, Finding information about partitions, Controlling the system, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
cdrom-drive, Controlling the system
centimeters, Mathematical tools
change, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Date/Time/Calendars, Controlling Processes, Managing users, Users/Groups, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Network Configuration , Internet Specific Commands, File Permissions, Graphics tools (command line based)
change owner, File Permissions
character, General Shell Tips, Text manipulation tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
character sequences, General Shell Tips
characters, Finding files, Text manipulation tools, Some basic Security Tools, RPM: Redhat Package Management System, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
chat, Text Editors
chattr, Working with files and folders, File Permissions
chcase, Text manipulation tools, Miscellaneous
chcase homepage, Text manipulation tools
check, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, Security, Some basic Security Tools, Working with MS-DOS files, RPM: Redhat Package Management System, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
checker, The Unix Tools Philosophy
checking, Some basic Security Tools, RPM: Redhat Package Management System, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
chfn, Users/Groups
chmod, Security, File Permissions
chown, File Permissions
Chris Karakas, Availability of sources, Resources used to create this document
chronological, Contributors
chsh, Users/Groups
clarity, Conventions used in this guide
CLI, Who would want to read this guide?
click, Graphics tools (command line based)
closed, Network Commands
clusters, Working with MS-DOS files
cmp, Text Information Tools, Finding a particular tool(s)
Code, Conventions used in this guide, The Unix Tools Philosophy
colon, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools
colour, Conversion tools, Graphics tools (command line based)
colours, Graphics tools (command line based)
column, Text manipulation tools
columns, Contributors , Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools
combination, Conventions used in this guide
combinations, Conventions used in this guide
combine, Text Viewing Tools
Combines, Text Viewing Tools
comm, Text Information Tools
command history, Shell Tips, The command-line history
command line-interface, Who would want to read this guide?
command list, Who would want to read this guide?
command name, General Shell Tips
command number, The command-line history
command substitution, Command Substitution
command syntax, Conventions used in this guide
command-line, Who would want to read this guide?, Who would not want to read this guide?, Resources used to create this document , The Unix Tools Philosophy, Shell Tips, General Shell Tips, The command-line history, Virtual Terminals and screen, Graphics tools (command line based), Finding a particular tool(s)
command-line interface, Who would not want to read this guide?, Finding a particular tool(s)
command-line-based, Introduction
command-lists, General Further Reading
command1, Performing more than one command, Finding information about the system
command2, Performing more than one command, Finding information about the system
commandName, The command-line history
commas, Text manipulation tools, Mathematical tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
Commmand, Finding files
common, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools, Compression, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
commonly, General Shell Tips
compares, Text Information Tools
complete, Who would not want to read this guide?, General Shell Tips
completions, General Shell Tips
complex, Introduction, The Unix Tools Philosophy, General Shell Tips, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools, Miscellaneous
complicated, Network Commands
composite, Graphics tools (command line based)
comprehensive, Who would want to read this guide?, Security
compress, Compression
compressed, Text Viewing Tools , Compression
compression, Compression
Comptechdoc's Linux Command Quickreference, General Further Reading
computer, Finding information about the system, Remote Administration Related, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
computers, Network Commands
concatenate, Usage
Concatenates, Usage, Text manipulation tools
concepts, Disclaimer, Mini-Guides
configuration, Network Configuration , Security
configure, Network Configuration
confirm, General Shell Tips
confusing, Finding information about the system
conjunction, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
connect, Remote Administration Related
connected, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Finding information about partitions
consistency, Contributors
console, The command-line history, Security
contact, Internet Specific Commands
content, Disclaimer
contents, Disclaimer, Usage, Moving around the filesystem, Finding information about the system, Conversion tools, Network Commands, File Permissions, Compression, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
continuous, Text Viewing Tools
contribution, Contributors
contributions, Contributors
contributors, Resources used to create this document
control, Controlling the system, Controlling services, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
Control key, Conventions used in this guide
controlling, Controlling the system, Controlling Processes
controls, Security
conventions, Conventions used in this guide
conversion, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Mathematical tools
convert, Resources used to create this document , Finding information about the system, Text manipulation tools, Mathematical tools, Compression
converts, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
copies, Working with files and folders, Remote Administration Related, rsync
copy, License, General Shell Tips, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Remote Administration Related, Miscellaneous
copying, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders
Copyright, License
copyrights, Disclaimer
core, The Unix Tools Philosophy
coreutils, The UNIX tools philosophy further reading
correct, Contributors , Controlling Processes, Mathematical tools, Some basic Security Tools, Compression, Graphics tools (command line based)
correctly, Internet Specific Commands
cost, Compression
count, Working with files and folders, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools
cp, Working with files and folders
CPU, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes
crackers, Internet Specific Commands
criteria, Miscellaneous
critical, Controlling services
criticism, Feedback, Contributors
criticisms, Contributors
cron, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
crontab, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
cryptic, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
CSS, Contributors
CTRL-A, Other Key combinations, Virtual Terminals and screen
CTRL-ALT-DEL, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
CTRL-ALT-F*, Virtual Terminals and screen
CTRL-C, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Controlling Processes, Text Viewing Tools , Network Commands
CTRL-D, General Shell Tips, Other Key combinations, Usage, Managing users, Mathematical tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
CTRL-E, Other Key combinations
CTRL-K, Other Key combinations
CTRL-N, Virtual Terminals and screen
CTRL-P, Virtual Terminals and screen
CTRL-R, The command-line history, Other Key combinations
CTRL-W, Other Key combinations
CTRL-X-$, General Shell Tips
CTRL-X-Y, General Shell Tips
CTRL-Y, Other Key combinations
CTRL-Z, Conventions used in this guide, Other Key combinations, Controlling Processes
curl, Internet Specific Commands
current, Conventions used in this guide, Moving around the filesystem, Finding information about the system, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, File Permissions, Compression, Miscellaneous
current directory, Moving around the filesystem
customisable, Controlling Processes
customisation, Text manipulation tools
customisations, Contributors
customise, Finding files, Date/Time/Calendars, Conversion tools, Miscellaneous
cut, Text manipulation tools

D

daemon, Controlling services, Remote Administration Related, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
Daemons, Controlling services
damage, Disclaimer, Internet Specific Commands
damaged, Compression
dash sign, Conventions used in this guide
data, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes, File Permissions, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
database, Graphics tools (command line based)
databases, Internet Specific Commands
date, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Date/Time/Calendars
dates, tar (tape archiver)
Dave Wreski, Security
David Lawyer, Contributors
day, Date/Time/Calendars, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
days, Date/Time/Calendars
db2lyx, Resources used to create this document
dd, Working with files and folders, Date/Time/Calendars, Duplicating disks
deactivating, Network Configuration
deb, Debian (deb), Finding package(s)
Debian documentation, General Further Reading
Debian Package List, Finding package(s)
debugging, Finding information about the system
decending, Moving around the filesystem
decimal, Mathematical tools, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
decompress, Compression
default, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes, Controlling services, Text manipulation tools, Network Configuration , Security, Graphics tools (command line based)
definitions, Concept Definitions
delete, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, File Permissions, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
deleted, Working with files and folders, File Permissions
delimiter, Text manipulation tools
dependent, Moving around the filesystem
Depending, Moving around the filesystem
depth, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Text Related Tools, Internet Specific Commands, Mini-Guides
describe, Security
described, Text Viewing Tools
describes, Mini-Guides
description, Introduction, Help
descriptions, Mini-Guides
designed, Who would want to read this guide?, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Usage, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Mathematical tools, Internet Specific Commands, Security, Some basic Security Tools, Compression
destination, Working with files and folders, Network Commands
destroy, Working with files and folders, Managing users
detail, Controlling Processes
detailed, Introduction, Who would not want to read this guide?, Contributors , Help, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Compression, Graphics tools (command line based)
details, Help, Moving around the filesystem, Controlling the system, Internet Specific Commands, Working with MS-DOS files, Duplicating disks
develop, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
device, Controlling the system, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Network Configuration , RPM: Redhat Package Management System
devices, Working with files and folders, Controlling the system
df, Finding information about the system, Finding information about partitions
dictionary, Internet Specific Commands
diff, Text Information Tools, Finding a particular tool(s)
diff3, Text Information Tools, Finding a particular tool(s)
difference, Concept Definitions, Text Information Tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Network Commands
differences, rsync
different, Finding files, Managing users, Text Information Tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Finding Text Within Files, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions, Wildcards
diffutils, Finding a particular tool(s)
dig, Internet Specific Commands
digit, Text manipulation tools, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
digits, Working with files and folders, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
dir, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
dir1, Finding information about the system
dir2, Finding information about the system
directories, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions
directory, General Shell Tips, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Finding information about partitions, Controlling services, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Internet Specific Commands, Compression, Miscellaneous, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
disable, General Shell Tips
disabled, Security
disclaimer, Legal
discuss list, Contributors
disk, Finding files, Finding information about partitions, File Permissions, Working with MS-DOS files, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
disks, Working with files and folders, Finding information about partitions, Working with MS-DOS files, Duplicating disks
display, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Date/Time/Calendars, Text Viewing Tools , Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Network Configuration , Graphics tools (command line based)
distinct, Command Substitution
distribute, License
distributions, Finding information about partitions, Security
divide, Working with files and folders
dlocate, Debian (deb)
dmesg, Finding information about the system
DNS, Internet Specific Commands
DocBook, Resources used to create this document
document, Introduction, Contributors , Help, Text Viewing Tools , Mini-Guides
document processor, Availability of sources, Resources used to create this document
documentation, Virtual Terminals and screen, Help, Finding information about partitions, Network Commands, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions, rsync, Working with MS-DOS files
documents, Contributors , Disclaimer, Text Viewing Tools , Text Conversion/Filter Tools
domain information groper, Internet Specific Commands
Dos-style, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
dos2unix, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
dosfsck, Working with MS-DOS files
dot, Moving around the filesystem
dots, Moving around the filesystem
double, Help
download, Internet Specific Commands
downloadable, Availability of sources
downloaded, Internet Specific Commands
downloader, Internet Specific Commands
downloading, Internet Specific Commands, Some basic Security Tools
downloads, Internet Specific Commands
downwards, Moving around the filesystem
dpkg, Debian (deb)
dpkg -S, Debian (deb)
Dr. B. Guillion, Resources used to create this document
drive, Working with files and folders, Finding information about partitions, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions)
drives, Finding information about partitions, Controlling the system
du, Working with files and folders
duplicate, Text manipulation tools, Duplicating disks
duplication, Mini-Guides

E

echo, General Shell Tips, Finding information about the system, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
edit, The command-line history, Users/Groups, Internet Specific Commands, Security, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
editing, Users/Groups, Graphics tools (command line based), Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
editor, Text Editors
editors, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Text Related Tools, Text Editors, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
effects, Graphics tools (command line based)
efficient, Who would want to read this guide?
eject, Controlling the system
emacs, The command-line history, Text Editors, Specific Further reading
email, Feedback
emerged, The Unix Tools Philosophy
emphasize, Conventions used in this guide
emphasized, Conventions used in this guide
empty, Working with files and folders
enable, Introduction, Conventions used in this guide
encodings, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
encouraged, Feedback
encrypted, Remote Administration Related
encryption, rsync
end, Usage, Finding files, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Text manipulation tools, Security, Regular Expressions
end-of-file, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
end-of-line, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
ending, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
endorsements, Disclaimer
ends, Internet Specific Commands, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
english, Conventions used in this guide
enhancements, Availability of sources
enscript, Conversion tools
enter, Mathematical tools
entered, The command-line history
entries, Text Viewing Tools
entry, Text manipulation tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
environment, Managing users
environment variable, General Shell Tips
epigram, Miscellaneous
epigrams, Miscellaneous
equals, File Permissions
equivalent, The command-line history, Moving around the filesystem, Date/Time/Calendars, Security, Regular Expressions
error, Concept Definitions, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system
Error output, Concept Definitions, Usage
errors, Contributors , Disclaimer, Working with MS-DOS files, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
ESC-$, General Shell Tips
ESC-Y, General Shell Tips
escape, General Shell Tips, Security
escape character, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
eth0, Network Configuration
evaluates, Mathematical tools
events, Controlling services
everyday, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
everyone, File Permissions
everything, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Finding information about the system, Managing users, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
exact, Help, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Controlling Processes, Duplicating disks, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
exactly, General Shell Tips, Command Substitution, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes, Mathematical tools
examples, Introduction, Conventions used in this guide, Disclaimer, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Viewing Tools , Scheduling Commands to run in the background
exclude, Finding files
exclude=pattern, tar (tape archiver)
Excluding, Finding files, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
executable, Conventions used in this guide, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files
execute, The command-line history, Command Substitution, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Mathematical tools, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions, Working with MS-DOS files
execution, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
exist, Usage, Working with files and folders, Internet Specific Commands
existing, Usage, Controlling Processes, File Permissions
exit, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders, Text Viewing Tools , Mathematical tools, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
expand, General Shell Tips, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files
expanding, General Shell Tips, Internet Specific Commands
expands, General Shell Tips
expert, Who would not want to read this guide?
explaining, Conventions used in this guide
explains, Directing Input/Output, Network Commands, Graphics tools (command line based)
explanation, Finding information about the system, Security
explanations, Who would want to read this guide?
explicitly, Conventions used in this guide
expression, Mathematical tools
expressions, Mathematical tools, Regular Expressions
ext2, Working with files and folders, File Permissions
ext3, Working with files and folders, File Permissions, Checking the Hard Disk for errors
extended, Controlling Processes
extension, Finding files, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Miscellaneous
extentions, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
extract, tar (tape archiver), Compression

F

factors, Mathematical tools
fail, The command-line history
fails, Performing more than one command
familiar, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
fdisk, Finding information about partitions
Feedback, Feedback
fg, Other Key combinations, Controlling Processes
fgrep, Finding Text Within Files
field, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
fields, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
figlet, Conversion tools
file access, File Permissions
file name, General Shell Tips
file permissions, Security
File Streams, Concept Definitions
file system, Working with the file-system
file-system, General Shell Tips, Working with the file-system, Working with files and folders, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions)
file-systems, Finding information about the system
file1, Working with files and folders, Text Information Tools
file2, Working with files and folders, Text Information Tools
filename1, Working with files and folders
filename2, Working with files and folders
filepart1, Text Viewing Tools
filepart2, Text Viewing Tools
filepart3, Text Viewing Tools
filespec, Text manipulation tools
filesystem, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about partitions, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions, Working with MS-DOS files
filesystems, Working with MS-DOS files
filter, Text manipulation tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
filters, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
find, General Shell Tips, The command-line history, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools, Mathematical tools, rsync, Graphics tools (command line based), Wildcards
finding, Working with the file-system, Controlling Processes, Text Information Tools
finding tools, Finding a particular tool(s)
finds, Help, Finding files, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Finding Text Within Files
findsmb, Network Commands
finger, Users/Groups
finish, Working with files and folders
finished, Usage, Working with files and folders, Mathematical tools
five, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
fix, General Shell Tips, Managing users
fixing, Contributors
flag, File Permissions
flags, File Permissions
flash, General Shell Tips
flexible, rsync
floppy, Working with files and folders, Working with MS-DOS files, Duplicating disks
floppy-image, Duplicating disks
fmt, Text manipulation tools
folders, Finding files
followed, Controlling Processes, Controlling services, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
following, General Shell Tips, Concept Definitions, Text manipulation tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
Follows, Finding Text Within Files, Mathematical tools
force, Working with files and folders, Controlling Processes
foreground, Controlling Processes
forgotten, Security
form, Controlling Processes, Regular Expressions
format, Availability of sources, General Shell Tips, Finding information about the system, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Compression, Graphics tools (command line based), Working with MS-DOS files
formats, Text Related Tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Graphics tools (command line based), Working with MS-DOS files
formatted, Working with MS-DOS files
forms, Text manipulation tools
fortune, Miscellaneous
forwards, Text Viewing Tools
found, Contributors , The command-line history, Finding information about partitions, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Security, Graphics tools (command line based)
fractions, Mathematical tools
frame, Conventions used in this guide
frameset, Conventions used in this guide
free, Finding information about the system
Free Software Foundation, License
FreeBSD, The Unix Tools Philosophy
freeze, Controlling Processes
Freshmeat, Text Editors, Archiving Files, Finding more useful tools, Finding package(s)
Freshmeat., Remote Administration Related
from/to dos website, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
fromdos, Text Conversion/Filter Tools
Front-Cover, License
FSF, License
ftp, Internet Specific Commands
full, Text manipulation tools, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Internet Specific Commands, Working with MS-DOS files, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
function, Introduction, General Shell Tips, Controlling Processes, Network Commands, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
functions, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Managing users
further reading, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Specific Further reading

G

gallons, Mathematical tools
garbled, General Shell Tips
Gareth Anderson, Feedback, License
gateway, Network Configuration
general, Contributors , Mathematical tools, Internet Specific Commands
generator, Some basic Security Tools
George Harmon, Contributors
GFDL, License, GNU Free Documentation License
giga, Miscellaneous
global aliases, General Shell Tips
globbing, Wildcards
globbing pattern, Regular Expressions
globbing patterns, Conventions used in this guide, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
GNU, License, Compression, Finding more useful tools
GNU Directory, Finding more useful tools
GNU Documentation License Site, License
GNU Free Documentation License, License, GNU Free Documentation License
GNU Manual's, Online Info Page Website:
GNU/Linux Tools Summary Homepage, Availability of sources
Google, General Further Reading
Google Groups, General Further Reading
gopher, Internet Specific Commands
grammar, Contributors
grand, Working with files and folders
granted, License
graph, Moving around the filesystem
graphical, Network Commands, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
graphically printable, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
Graphics, Introduction, Graphics tools (command line based)
great, Mathematical tools
greater, Usage
greatly, Text manipulation tools
grep, Finding information about the system, Finding Text Within Files, Mathematical tools, Wildcards, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard), Mandriva (urpm* commands, rpm based)
group, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Users/Groups, Security, File Permissions, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
groups, Users/Groups
grub, Security
GUI, Introduction, Who would want to read this guide?, Finding a particular tool(s)
guide, Introduction, Contributors , Text Related Tools, Graphics tools (command line based)
gunzip, tar (tape archiver)
gzip, Text Viewing Tools , tar (tape archiver), Compression
gzipped, tar (tape archiver), Compression

H

halt, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
hand, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
handles, Controlling services
handy, Shell Tips, Some basic Security Tools
hard links, Working with files and folders
hard-link, Working with files and folders
hard-links, Working with files and folders
harmless, General Shell Tips
hda, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
hdb, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
hdc, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
head, Text Viewing Tools
header, Working with files and folders, Conversion tools
help, Help, Network Configuration , Remote Administration Related
hexadecimal, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
hidden, Moving around the filesystem, Internet Specific Commands
hierarchy, Working with the file-system, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions)
higher, Controlling Processes
highlight, Conversion tools
highlighting, Conversion tools
highly, Disclaimer
history, The command-line history, Other Key combinations
hit, Mathematical tools, Security
hitting, Usage
Home, Conventions used in this guide, General Shell Tips, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, Users/Groups, Remote Administration Related, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
host, Network Commands, Internet Specific Commands
hosted, Availability of sources
hostname, Network Commands, Internet Specific Commands, Remote Administration Related
hosts, Network Commands
hour, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
hours, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
HOWTO's, Specific Further reading
hp166, Remote Administration Related
HTML, Contributors , Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Conversion tools
http, Internet Specific Commands
http://slashdot.org, Internet Specific Commands
httrack, Internet Specific Commands
huge, Internet Specific Commands
human readable, Working with files and folders
human-readable, Working with files and folders

I

ibiblio, Specific Further reading
IBM Developerworks, Regular Expressions, General Further Reading
id, Controlling Processes
id's, Controlling Processes
idea, Who would want to read this guide?
ideas, Feedback
identify, Graphics tools (command line based)
ifcfg, Network Configuration
ifconfig, Network Configuration
ifdown, Network Configuration
ifup, Network Configuration
image, Working with files and folders, Graphics tools (command line based), Duplicating disks
ImageMagick, Graphics tools (command line based), Specific Further reading
images, Graphics tools (command line based)
immutable, File Permissions
import, Graphics tools (command line based)
importance, Conventions used in this guide
improve, Contributors
improved, Contributors
improvements, Contributors
inaccuracies, Disclaimer
inbuilt, General Shell Tips
inches, Mathematical tools
include, Contributors , File Permissions
includes, Finding information about the system, Network Commands
including, General Shell Tips, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text manipulation tools, Internet Specific Commands, Remote Administration Related, File Permissions, Graphics tools (command line based), Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
increase, Controlling Processes
indented, Text manipulation tools
index, Who would want to read this guide?, Contributors
indication, Controlling Processes
individual, Help, Text Viewing Tools
info, Help, Controlling Processes, Text manipulation tools, Network Commands, Working with MS-DOS files, Wildcards, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard), General Further Reading
Info Pages, Online Info Page Website:
information, Who would not want to read this guide?, Legal, General Shell Tips, Help, Working with files and folders, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Finding information about the system, Finding information about partitions, Controlling Processes, Users/Groups, Finding Text Within Files, Network Commands, Network Configuration , Internet Specific Commands, Security, Archiving Files, rsync, Miscellaneous, Mini-Guides, Duplicating disks, Regular Expressions
inode, File Permissions
input, The Unix Tools Philosophy, Concept Definitions, Usage, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text manipulation tools, Mathematical tools
insensitive, Finding files
insert, Usage
inside, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
inspection, Network Commands
install, Archiving Files
installed, Help, Finding Text Within Files, Mathematical tools, RPM: Redhat Package Management System
instances, Text manipulation tools
instructions, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
integer, Mathematical tools
integrated, Contributors
integrity, Some basic Security Tools, Compression
interact, Controlling the system, Controlling Processes
interactive, Controlling Processes, Mathematical tools
interchangeably, Introduction, Command Substitution
interface, Network Commands, Network Configuration
interfaces, Network Configuration
intermediate, Who would want to read this guide?
internal, Remote Administration Related
internet, Virtual Terminals and screen, Text Editors, Network Commands, Internet Specific Commands, Some basic Security Tools
interpret, Finding files, Regular Expressions
interpreted, Mathematical tools
interprets, Network Commands
interrelate, Controlling Processes
Introduction to Linux guide, Who would want to read this guide?
Invariant, License
invention, The Unix Tools Philosophy
IP address, Mounting and Unmounting (Floppy/CDROM/Hard-drive Partitions), Network Configuration
ispell, Text manipulation tools
issues, Contributors
italic, Conventions used in this guide
italics, Conventions used in this guide

J

job, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
jobs, Controlling Processes, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
join, Text manipulation tools
jpeg, Working with files and folders, Graphics tools (command line based)
JPG, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
judged, Who would want to read this guide?

K

Kb, Working with files and folders
kernel, Finding information about the system, Security
kernel ring buffer, Finding information about the system
kernel version, Finding information about the system
kernel-modules, Finding information about the system
Kevin Fenzi, Security
key, The command-line history, Text Editors
key combination, The command-line history, Other Key combinations
key combinations, Conventions used in this guide, Shell Tips
key-combinations, Virtual Terminals and screen
keyboard, Concept Definitions
keyword, Mandriva (urpm* commands, rpm based), Red Hat (rpm)
keywords, Miscellaneous
kibibyte, Miscellaneous
kill, Controlling Processes, Controlling services
killall, Controlling Processes
killed, Controlling Processes
kilobyte, Working with files and folders
kilobytes, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system
knowledge, Who would not want to read this guide?

L

lang, Conversion tools
language, Contributors
language review, Contributors
last, The command-line history, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Viewing Tools , File Permissions
lastlog, Finding information about the system
LaTeX, Availability of sources, The Unix Tools Philosophy
ldap, Internet Specific Commands
leading, Moving around the filesystem
learn, Who would want to read this guide?, Contributors , Moving around the filesystem, Text manipulation tools, Mathematical tools, Network Configuration
learning, Who would want to read this guide?, Text Editors
least, Text manipulation tools, Wildcards
legal, Legal
length, Some basic Security Tools
less, Usage, Text Viewing Tools
lesser, General Shell Tips, Text manipulation tools
let, Compression
letter, Finding information about partitions, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
letters, File Permissions, Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
level, Conventions used in this guide, Security
levels, Moving around the filesystem
liability, Disclaimer
license, License, GNU Free Documentation License
licensing, Legal
lilo, Security
limited, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools
line, General Shell Tips, Mass Rename/copy/link Tools, Finding information about the system, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, RPM: Redhat Package Management System, Regular Expressions
line-by-line, Text Information Tools
lines, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Information Tools, Text manipulation tools, Finding Text Within Files, Regular Expressions, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
link, Working with files and folders
linked, Controlling the system
links, Working with files and folders, Internet Specific Commands
link_name, Working with files and folders
linux, Security
Linux Cookbook, Who would want to read this guide?
Linux Documentation Project, Contributors , Security, General Further Reading, Specific Further reading
Linux in a Nutshell, General Further Reading
Linux in a Nutshell 3rd Edition, Who would want to read this guide?
Linux Newbie Admin guide, General Further Reading
Linux Online Classroom, Duplicating disks
Linux Security, Security
Linux Security howto, Security
list, Who would want to read this guide?, Contributors , General Shell Tips, The command-line history, Help, Moving around the filesystem, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling Processes, Users/Groups, Text manipulation tools, Network Commands, File Permissions, tar (tape archiver), Graphics tools (command line based), Scheduling Commands to run in the background
listed, Introduction, General Shell Tips, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Text Information Tools, Network Commands, Graphics tools (command line based), Scheduling Commands to run in the background, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
listen, Controlling services
listens, Controlling services
listing, Who would not want to read this guide?, Contributors , Text Conversion/Filter Tools, File Permissions, Working with MS-DOS files
lists, Who would not want to read this guide?, Usage, Moving around the filesystem, Finding Text Within Files, Network Commands, Scheduling Commands to run in the background
literal, Finding Text Within Files
litres, Mathematical tools
ln, Working with files and folders
loaded, Finding information about the system
local, Remote Administration Related, rsync
locates, Finding files
location, Usage
locking, Users/Groups, Security
log, The command-line history, Virtual Terminals and screen
logged, Finding information about the system, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System, Network Commands, Remote Administration Related
logging, Remote Administration Related
logical, Performing more than one command, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns), Regular Expressions
login, Users/Groups, Internet Specific Commands, Remote Administration Related
logout, General Shell Tips
logs-out, General Shell Tips
long, Moving around the filesystem, Finding information about the system, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
look, Usage, Finding files, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Finding information about partitions, Text Information Tools, Finding Text Within Files, Mathematical tools, Compression, Standard Wildcards (globbing patterns)
looking, Introduction, Finding information about the system, Date/Time/Calendars, Text Conversion/Filter Tools, Internet Specific Commands, Security
looks, Finding files, Text manipulation tools
lookup, Internet Specific Commands
lost, Controlling Processes
low, Working with files and folders
low-level, Working with files and folders
lowercase, Text manipulation tools, Useful categories of characters (as defined by the POSIX standard)
ls, General Shell Tips, Moving around the filesystem, Working with files and folders, File Permissions
lsattr, File Permissions
lsd, Moving around the filesystem
LyX, Availability of sources, Contributors
lyxtox, Resources used to create this document , Contributors

M

machine, Working with files and folders, Finding information about the system, Controlling services, Text Related Tools, Network Commands, Internet Specific Commands, rsync
machine name, General Shell Tips
Machine-translated, Availability of sources
machines, Network Commands, Security
Machtelt Garrels, Who would want to read this guide?, Contributors
magic character, General Shell Tips
maintainers, Availability of sources
maintenance, Shutting Down/Rebooting the System
major, Internet