A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, Fourth Edition

Command Reference

The following tables list the utilities covered in this part of the book grouped by function and alphabetically within function. Although most of these are true utilities (programs that are separate from the shells), some are built into the shells (shell builtins). The sample utility on page 737 shows the format of the description of each utility in this part of the book.

Utilities That Display and Manipulate Files

aspell	Checks a file for spelling errors—page 739
bzip2	Compresses or decompresses files—page 750
cat	Joins and displays files—page 753
cmp	Compares two files—page 766
comm	Compares sorted files—page 768
cp	Copies files—page 772
cpio	Creates an archive, restores files from an archive, or copies a directory ...