Info (Unix)
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info is a command line utility initially written for use with GNU/Linux and then ported to other Unix-like operating systems. It is a kind of hypertextual, multipage documentation and help viewer working on a terminal, so no GUI is needed; info processes info files, which are Texinfo formatted files, and presents the documentation as a tree, with simple commands to traverse the tree and to follow cross references. For instance
- n goes to the next page.
- p goes to the previous page.
- u goes to the upper page.
- l takes you to the last(visited) node
- To follow a cross reference, you can move the cursor on a link (a word preceded by a *) and press enter.
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| Unix command line programs and builtins (more) | |||
| File and file system management: | cat | chattr | cd | chmod | chown | chgrp | cp | du | df | file | fsck | ln | ls | lsof | mkdir | mount | mv | pwd | rm | rmdir | split | touch | ||
| Process management: | at | chroot | crontab | exit | kill | killall | nice | pgrep | pidof | pkill | ps | sleep | time | top | wait | watch | ||
| User Management/Environment: | env | finger | id | mesg | passwd | su | sudo | uname | uptime | w | wall | who | whoami | write | ||
| Text processing: | awk | comm | cut | ex | head | iconv | join | less | more | paste | sed | sort | tail | tr | uniq | wc | xargs | ||
| Shell programming: | echo | expr | printf | unset | Printing: | lp |
| Communications: inetd | netstat | ping | rlogin | traceroute |
Searching: find | grep | strings |
Miscellaneous: banner | bc | cal | man | size | yes |
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