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    This document provides a summary of common AIX commands including brief descriptions of their usage and functionality. It lists commands such as cd, date, cat, who, touch, vi, ls, pwd, man, cp, chmod, chown, rm, history, cal, ps, du, df, chgrp, groups, spell, ctrl+z, stop, kill, r, head, tail, dircmp, &, >, >>, bg, fg, jobs, sort, mkdir, mv, echo, at, istat, lp, find, finger, wall, and write.

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    AIX Common Command Reference: Commands

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    AIX Common Command Reference


    cd

    Usage Examples: [cd] - Return to home directory, [cd ..] - Move up one directory, [cd PATHNAME] -
    Changes the directory to the pathname given ||
    date Description: Displays system date and time

    cat

    Usage Examples: [cat FILENAME] ||


    who Description: Shows who is signed on

    touch

    Usage Examples: [touch FILENAME] ||


    vi

    Usage Examples: [vi FILENAME] ||


    ls

    Usage Examples: [ls], [ls -l] [ls -R]- List with long description, [ls | more] - List one page at a time, -R
    lists everything recursivly in directory (contents of subdirectories) ||
    pwd Description: Displays current directory

    man

    Usage Examples: [man COMMAND] [man -k KEYWORD] -k will list all commands with the
    keyword given ||
    cp

    Usage Examples: [cp OLDFILENAME NEWFILENAME] ||


    chmod

    Usage Examples: [chmod u+r FILENAME] - Gives "user" Read access. The first letter represents
    (u)ser, (g)roup, or (a)ll. The plus adds access and a minus revokes access. The second letter is the access
    type (r)ead, (w)rite, e(x)ecute. [chmod 777 FILENAME] - Gives user, group and all read, write and
    execute access. Given the values of read=4, write=2 and execute=1, so if we instead only wanted group
    to have read and write access, but not execute we would add 4+2 and put 6 into the middle position
    (group). ||
    chown

    Usage Examples: [chown newowner filename] ||


    rm

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    Usage Examples: [rm FILENAME] [rm -r DIRECTORYNAME] The -r will remove dir even if files
    or other directories are inside. ||
    history

    cal

    Usage Examples: [cal 12 2005] displays December calander, [cal 2005] displays 2005 calander, [cal
    2005 > outfile] directs 2005 calander data to file. ||
    ps Description: Displays jobs

    du

    Usage Examples: [du -k -s directoryname] - Displays size of directory in kilobytes ||


    df Description: Disk Usage Free/Used on mounted file
    systems

    chgrp

    groups Description: Displays groups user belongs to

    spell

    ctrl+z Description: Suspends a foreground job

    stop Description: Suspends a background job

    kill

    Usage: [kill -9 14636] - Kills job with pid 14636, -9 specifies immediate termination ||
    r Description: repeat last command (korn shell)

    head Description: Display top of file

    tail Description: Display end of file

    dircmp Description: Compare contents of 2 directories

    &

    Usage: enter at end of command ||


    >, >>

    Usage Examples: [cmd > file] sends output of command to file, [cmd >> file] sends output of command
    to file appending to existing data, [cmd < file] takes input for command from file ||
    bg

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    Usage Examples: first use jobs command to get id in [ ]1, 2, etc then issue [bg #] ||
    fg

    Usage Examples: first use jobs command to get id in [ ] 1,2, etc then issue [fg #] ||
    jobs Description: Displays active jobs

    sort Description: Sort file

    mkdir Description: Create a directory

    mv

    Usage Examples: [mv oldfilename newpath/newfilename] ||


    echo $SHELL Description: Displays Shell being used. Generally
    chs=c & ksh=korn

    at

    Usage Examples: [at 7:59 pm June 9] Press enter, then all commands to execute, then <ctrl+d> to
    end command entry. ||
    istat Description: view inode information

    lp

    Usage Examples: [/usr/local/bin/lp -ditapp FileToPrint] - Print output to itapp printer ||


    find

    Usage Examples: See book ||


    finger Description: Display information about a user

    wall Description: Send message to everyone

    write Description: Send message to single user

    Big Calm (Handy AIX Commands)----

    Universal Command Guide----

    ||
    Korn Shell Documentation

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