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'set' commands vary depending on what shell program you are using. All of them (for each shell) are documented in the 'man' command or 'info' command for that shell. For example, 'man csh', et al.
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What are the socket types in UNIX?
Unix commands
What are Unix commands?
Commands you use in a Unix based computer OS to achieve certain things. Similar to MS/DOS commands in Windows. Mostly used in computers running the Linux OS. unix command
What are two traditional UNIX commands used to send print jobs to a printer?
The lp and lpr commands are the traditional commands used to print jobs on UNIX.
How can you learn all of the Unix commands?
It would take a very long time to learn all of the Unix commands, and frankly, that isn't necessary. Most Unix users have a subset of commands they use all the time, and that is how they learn them.
Why does Linux and unix share more commands than windows xp and unix?
Because Linux evolved from UNIX, but Windows evolved from DOS.
Brief description of format command in unix?
There is no standard 'format' command in Unix.
In unix how will you find extension of file using commands?
Unix files do not rely on extensions, therefore there is no command to find them.
Every unix and Linux system contains full documentation of unix commands in the pages?
Man (or manual) pages
How do you find out what DOS Commands are available in Linux?
There is none. For starters, you have it backwards, DOS actually copied most of its commands from Unix (The rest came from CP/M.), which Linux is inspired by. Commands like "cd" and "dir" were Unix commands long before DOS even existed.
Unix supports DOS commands or not?
Most of MS-DOS' commands were based on those of Unix and CP/M. 'cd', 'dir', 'clear', and 'echo' are usually found in both. MS-DOS added it's own commands, however, and made some different from those of existing versions of Unix, and no one saw any reason to change the names of existing ones in Unix.
Give an example of set of shell commands that will give you the number of files in a directory?
For Unix, try the following: ls -1 | grep -v '^\.' | wc -l
What has the author William Holliker written?
William Holliker has written: 'UNIX Shell commands quick reference' -- subject(s): UNIX (Computer file), UNIX Shells
