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AIX Common Command Reference: Commands

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

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


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----

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Korn Shell Documentation

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