List of Unix programs

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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


References

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