Kansas State University at Salina Introduction to Unix

Advanced Unix Commands

The commands in Linux for Programmers and Users, Chapter 4, go beyond working with files and directories. They cover a variety of topics such as report generation, data processing, archiving data, scheduling commands and a few more advanced commands related to file systems.

Contents

• Use a Pipe For That
• Regular Expressions
• Filtering Data
  • Filtering Horizontally
  • Filtering Vertically
  • Inline Filtering
  • awk
• Comparing Files
  • cmp
  • diff
  • ed
  • Patching Files with diff and ed
  • sum
  • comm
• Finding Files
  • find
  • xargs
• Archiving Data
  • cpio
  • tar
  • dump
  • restore
  • gzip
  • dd
  • mt
• Scheduling Commands
  • crontab
  • at
• Reference Files with Links
  • ln
  • Background - Inodes
  • Hard Links
  • Symbolic Links
• Miscellaneous Other Commands
  • whoami
  • su
  • ul
  • col
  • od
  • mount
  • time