May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
15h 18m
English
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Miscellaneous Programs
There's always a "miscellaneous" category:
cvs | The Concurrent Versions System, a powerful source-code management program. |
info | The GNU Info system for online documentation. |
locale | Print information about available locales. |
logger | Send messages to system logs, usually via syslog(3). |
lp, lpr | Spool files to a printer. |
lpq | Show the list of print jobs in progress and waiting in the queue. |
Send electronic mail. | |
make | Control compilation and recompilation of files. |
man | Print the online manual page(s) for commands, library functions, system calls, devices, file formats, and administrative commands. |
scp | Secure remote copy of files. |
ssh | Secure shell. Provide an encrypted connection between machines for program execution or interactive login. |
uptime | Tell how long the system has been up, and show system load information. |
Also in the miscellaneous category are the commands for the Revision Control System (RCS):
ci | Check in a file to RCS. |
co | Check out a file from RCS. |
rcs | Manipulate a file that is under RCS control. |
rcsdiff | Run diff on two different versions of a file controlled by RCS. |
rlog | Print the check-in log for one or more RCS-managed files. |
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