Example Commands for Ubuntu/Linux
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true
Exit with a status code indicating success. --help disp...
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tset
tset - initialization This program initializes terminal...
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ucfr
Where Package is the package associated with the config...
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uniq
Filter adjacent matching lines from INPUT (or standard ...
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unxz
xz is a general-purpose data compression tool with comm...
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vdir
List information about the FILEs (the current directory...
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vgck
vgck checks LVM metadata for consistency.USAGE vgck [ -...
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view
Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. ...
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vigr
The vipw and vigr commands edits the files /etc/passwd ...
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vipw
The vipw and vigr commands edits the files /etc/passwd ...
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wall
wall displays a message, or the contents of a file, or ...
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wget
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download...
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x509
The x509 command is a multi purpose certificate utility...
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zcat
Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Z...
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znew
Znew recompresses files from .Z (compress) format to .g...
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CA.pl
The CA.pl script is a perl script that supplies the rel...
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acpid
acpid is designed to notify user-space programs of ACPI...
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b2sum
Print or check BLAKE2 (512-bit) checksums. With no FILE...
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batch
at and batch read commands from standard input or a spe...
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blkid
The blkid program is the command-line interface to work...
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capsh
Linux capability support and use can be explored and co...
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chacl
chacl is an IRIX-compatibility command, and is maintain...
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chage
The chage command changes the number of days between pa...
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chcon
Change the SELinux security context of each FILE to CON...
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chcpu
chcpu can modify the state of CPUs. It can enable or di...
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chgrp
Change the group of each FILE to GROUP. With --referenc...
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chmem
The chmem command sets a particular size or range of me...
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chmod
This manual page documents the GNU version of chmod. ch...
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chown
This manual page documents the GNU version of chown. ch...
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cksum
Print CRC checksum and byte counts of each FILE. --help...
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clear
clear clears your screen if this is possible, including...
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cpp-7
The C preprocessor, often known as cpp, is a macro proc...
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diff3
Compare three files line by line. Mandatory arguments t...
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dmesg
dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buf...
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egrep
grep searches for PATTERN in each FILE. A FILE of “-” s...
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eject
Eject allows removable media (typically a CD-ROM, flopp...
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faked
If a fakeroot process wants to change the ownership of ...
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false
Exit with a status code indicating failure. --help disp...
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fdisk
fdisk is a dialog-driven program for creation and manip...
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fgrep
grep searches for PATTERN in each FILE. A FILE of “-” s...
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flock
This utility manages flock(2) locks from within shell s...
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fsadm
fsadm utility checks or resizes the filesystem on a dev...
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fuser
fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specifie...
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gcc-7
When you invoke GCC, it normally does preprocessing, co...
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gpgsm
gpgsm is a tool similar to gpg to provide digital encry...
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gprof
"gprof" produces an execution profile of C, Pascal, or ...
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groff
This document describes the groff program, the main fro...
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grops
grops translates the output of GNU troff to PostScript....
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grpck
The grpck command verifies the integrity of the groups ...
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iconv
The iconv program reads in text in one encoding and out...
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