Glossaire

cd

change directory

pwd

print name of current/working directory

ls

list directory contents

man

An interface to the on-line reference manuals

tree

List contents of directories in a tree-like format

cut

remove sections from each line of files

sort

sort lines of text files

grep

print lines matching a pattern

uniq

report or omit repeated lines

less

opposite of more. Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as forward movement.

more

file perusal filter for crt viewing

cat

concatenate files and print on the standard output

head

output the first part of files

tail

output the last part of files

file

determine file type