July 2005
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
158h 24m
English
book
Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
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Commands
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mdir
mdir [options] dir
List directory contents on an MS-DOS filesystem. See ls, dir, and
mtools for more information.
Options
-/ Display output recursively, listing the contents of
subdirectories.
-a Include hidden files in the output.
-b Produce a concise listing, showing each directory or file on a
separate line, with no heading or summary information.
-f Operate in fast mode, without determining the amount of free
space. Not required on FAT32 filesystems, which store the
free-space information explicitly.
-w Produce wide output, printing filenames across the page with
no file-size or creation-date information.
-V Print version information and exit.
mdu
mdu [option] dir
Display disk usage, in clusters, for a directory and its subdirecto-
ries and files on an MS-DOS filesystem. See du and mtools for
more information, and see minfo for the cluster size. Only one of -a
or -s can be specified.
Options
-a Show the space used by individual files in a directory as well
as the total space.
-s Show only the total space used.
merge
merge [options] file1 file2 file3
Perform a three-way file merge, putting the result in file1. The
effect is easiest to understand if file2 is considered the original
version of a file, file3 an altered version of file2, and file1 a later
altered version ...
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