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Here is a list of popular commands and software systems available on the CEC UNIX systems. To get the manual page for a command, try `man command_name'. To get the help on that command, if any, try `help topic_name'. COMMAND FUNCTION HELP TOPIC adb debugger apropos locate commands by keyword apropos ar archive, library maintainer at execute commands at later time awk pattern scanning & processing language ada Ada language compiler and RTS ada apl APL interpreter biff be notified if new mail arrives mail cal print calendars calendar cat catenate data cat,shell caesar graphical layout editor cad cb C program beautifier C cc C compiler C cd change working directory cd,shell chmod change protection modes chmod clear clear terminal screen clear col filter formatter output documents correct correct spelling mistakes documents cp copy files copy csh command interpreter with C-like syntax shell ctrlc system/matrix analysis program ctrlc curses Optimal cursor motion package date print the time and date time_of_day dbx symbolic debugger dbx dd copy and convert data deroff remove formatter commands documents df list disk usage by partition df diction find wordy sentences documents diff differential file & directory compare diff ditroff troff typesetter for the Imagen documents du summarize disk usage of directory du echo echo arguments shell eqn typeset mathematics explain theasaurus for diction documents f77 Fortran 77 compiler fortran file determine file type file find find files finger user information lookup finger fold fold long text lines fold from print sources of new mail mail fsplit split up fortran programs ftp intersystem File Transfer Program copy gemacs (GNU) veratile screen editor emacs gpssh GPSS simulation system graph plot data on a nice graph graphics grep search a file for patterns grep groups show group membership groups head give first few lines hostname print name of current host hostname indent indent and format C programs C join join database primitive kill kick a process kill last print recent user logins last learn computer-aided instruction on UNIX learn leave remind you when you have to leave leave lex generator of lexical analyzers lex lisp Franz Lisp dialect of lisp lisp ln make links ln lock reserve your terminal lpq Examine line-printer queues printing lpr Print stuff at a line printer printing lprm remove jobs from print queue printing ls list contents of directories ls m4 compleat macro pre-processor m4 mail electronic (network) mail system mail make maintain program groups make man on-line UNIX programmers manual man mkdir make a directory mkdir more file perusal program more mt manipulate the magtape drive mv move and rename files mv passwd change login password password pc pascal compiler pascal pi pascal interpreter plot graphics filters graphics postnews submit a news article news pr paginate, label, and collate files pr print paginate and print file printing ps display process status ps pwd print current working directory shell quota print current quotas quota ratfor rational fortran pre-processor rcp Remote file copy copy reset reset the tty driver to sensible state terminals rm remove files or directories rm rsh run a command on a remote system rsh ruptime show status of all hosts on network ruptime rwho show who is logged in on all hosts rwho script make a typescript of login session script sed stream editor (filter) sed sh standard command interpreter slam discrete-event simulation language sort sort and merge files sort spell find spelling errors spell spice accurate low-level circuit simulator cad spitbol SNOBOL4 language interpreter spitbol spline interpolate smooth curve graphics split split a file into pieces split su substitute user temporarily su tail deliver last part of a file tail talk talk to another user on the screen talk tbl format pretty tables documents tee pipe fitting tee tr translate characters tr tset set up terminal characteristics terminals tty print name of current tty terminals uniq filter out duplicate lines from stream uniq uptime how long has the system been up? w vi visual editor vi vlsi tools Berkeley VSLI design tools cad vnews full-screen news-reading program news w who is on the system? What are they up to? w whatis describe what a program is whatis who who is on the system who whoami print current effective user id whoami wport print information about users and ttys wport yacc LALR(1) compiler-compiler z flexible command-based full-screen editor z There are many more useful commands and applications programs available. For more information, see section 1 of the UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL, or ask a consultant.