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List of Unix programs
Common utilities
- admin
- anacron - Periodic command scheduler
- anubis - Outgoing mail processor
- apt - Advanced front-end for dpkg
- ar - Maintain, modify, and extract from, archives
- asa
- at - Single-time command scheduler
- awk - A pattern scanning and processing language
- basename - Returns the final component of a path
- bash - Bourne Again SHell, the most common shell on *nix systems
- batch
- bc - Calculator program
- bzip2 - Block-sorting file compressor
- c99
- cal - Displays a calendar
- cat - Concatenate files to standard output
- cflow
- chgrp - Change the group of a file or directory
- chmod - Change the permissions of a file or directory
- chown - Change the owner of a file or directory
- cksum - Print the CRC checksum and bytecount of a file
- cmp - Compare two files byte for byte
- colon
- comm - Sort two files and compare them line for line
- command
- compress
- continue - Skip the current iteration of a loop
- cp - Copy a file or directory to another location
- crontab - Crontab file editor
- csplit - Split a file into sections determined by context lines
- ctags
- cut - Remove sections from each line of a file or standard input
- cxref
- daemonic - Interface to daemon init scripts
- date - Print or set the system date and/or time
- dd - Copy and convert a file
- debconf - Package configuration management system
- delta
- df - Report filesystem disk space
- diff - Compare two files line by line
- dirname - Strip non-directory suffixes from a path
- dot
- dpkg - The Debian package manager
- du - Estimate space used on a filesystem
- echo - Print to standard output
- ed - Traditional Unix text editor
- env - Run a program with modified environment variables
- eval
- ex - Text editor, now often a symbolic link to vim
- expand
- expr
- false - Do nothing and fail
- fc
- file - Determine the type of a file
- find - Search for files through a directory hierarchy
- fink - The Fink package manager
- fold - Wrap each input line to fit within the given width
- fort77 - Fortran 77 compiler
- fuser - Identify processes by files or sockets
- galeon - Light-weight GNOME web browser
- gencat
- get
- getconf
- getopts
- gettext - Message localization support
- grep - Print lines matching a pattern
- gzip - The gzip file compressor
- hash
- head - Output the first parts of a file
- iconv - Convert the encoding of the specified files
- id - Print real/effective UIDs/GIDs
- ipcrm - Remove a message queue, semaphore set or shared memory id
- ipcs - Provide information on IPC facilities
- join - Join lines of two files on a common field
- kill - Terminate a process
- lex - Lexical scanner generator
- link
- links - Console based web browser
- ln - Link one file/directory to another
- locale - Get locale specific information
- localedef - Compile locale definitions
- logger - Make entries in the system log
- logname - Print user's login name
- lp - Print a file (on a line printer)
- ls - List directory conents
- lynx - Console based web browser
- m4 - Macro language
- mailx - Email sending utility
- make - Used to determine which parts of a package need recompiling
- man - Manual browser
- maxima - Symbol manipulation program
- mesg - Control write access to your terminal
- mkdir - Make a directory
- mkfifo - Make a named pipe
- more - Pager
- mozilla - Graphical cross platform web browser
- mv - Move/rename a file or directory
- nano - Simple text editor
- newgrp - Log in to a new group
- nice - Alter priorities for processes
- nl - Number the lines of a file
- nm - List symbols from object files
- nohup - Run a command with immunity to hangups outputting to non-tty
- od - Dump files in various formats, e.g. octal
- openssl - Secure Sockets Layer and general crypto library
- passwd - User and group entries for daemons
- paste - Merge lines of files
- patch - Change files based on a patch file
- pathchk - Check the validity/portability of filenames
- pax
- pinepgp - Filters which enables pine to use signed/encrypted email
- pr - Convert text files for printing
- printf - Format and print data
- prs
- ps - Report process status
- pwd - Print the current working directory
- qalter
- qdel
- qhold
- qmove
- qmsg
- qrerun
- qrls
- qselect
- qsig
- qstat
- qsub
- read - Read from a channel
- readonly
- renice - Alter the priorities of an already running process
- return - Return a value
- rm - Delete a file or directory
- rmdel
- rmdir - Delete a directory
- sact
- samba - SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
- sccs
- sed - Stream editor
- sh - Standard Unix shell, usually a symbolic link to bash
- sha-pm - Perl interface to the NIST Secure Hash Algorithm
- shift
- sleep - Delay for specified time
- sort - Sort lines of text files
- split - Split a file into pieces
- strings - Print strings of printable characters found in a file
- strip - Discard symbols from object files
- stty - Change and print terminal line settings
- su - Start a new process (defaults to shell) as a different user (defaults to root)
- tabs
- tail - Output the tail end of files
- talk - Talk to another logged-in user
- tar - GNU tar - tape archiver
- tee - Read from standard input, write to standard output and files
- test - Test an expression
- time - Time a command
- times
- touch - Create a new file or update its modification time
- tput - Initialize a terminal/query terminfo database
- tr - Translate/delete characters
- true - Excel at doing nothing
- tsort - Perform a topological sort
- tty - Print filename of terminal connected to standard input
- type
- uname - Print assorted system statistics
- uncompress
- unexpand
- unget
- uniq
- unlink
- unset
- uucp
- uudecode
- uuencode
- uustat
- uux
- uw-imapd-ssl - Remote mail folder access server
- val
- vi - Text editor
- vtun - Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP
- w3m - Pager/text-based WWW browser
- wait
- wc - Word/line/byte count
- wget - Automatic web site retreiver
- what
- who
- write
- xargs
- yacc
- yafc - Enhanced ftp client, supporting ssh2 (sftp)
- zcat
- zssh - Program for transferring files using SSH
Desktops/Graphical User Interfaces
Multimedia
Database Servers
Database Clients
Network Services
Security Auditing
Network Utilities
Filesystems
Filesystem Utilities
Desktop Publishing
Conversion
- nkf - convert Japanese characters
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