MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

Table of Contents
Volume 1
Chapter 1. Commands and Utilities
intro .......................................................................................................introduction to man pages 1-2
alias .........................................................................................display or create command aliases 1-8
ar.........................................................................................create and maintain library archives 1-11
asa ...........................................................................interpret ASA/FORTRAN carriage control 1-15
awk..................................................................data transformation, report generation language 1-17
banner ....................................................................................................display text in large font 1-42
basename.................................................................display file name component of path name 1-44
bc ...............................................................arbitrary-precision arithmetic calculation language 1-45
break................................................................................................exit from loop in shell script 1-68
c......................................................................................................produce multi-column output 1-69
c89...................................................................................................generic C compiler interface 1-71
calendar.........................................................................................appointment reminder system 1-76
callci..........................................................run a MPE/iX CI command from the MPE/iX Shell 1-79
cat ............................................................................................concatenate and display text files 1-81
cd..........................................................................................................change working directory 1-83
chgrp.....................................................change the group ownership of files and/or directories 1-86
chmod...................................................................................change access permissions of a file 1-88
chown..............................................................change the ownership of files and/or directories 1-92
ci...........................................................................................................check in a file under RCS 1-95
cksum .....................................................................compute checksum and byte count for file 1-105
cmp..................................................................................................................compare two files 1-107
co......................................................................................................check out a file under RCS 1-109
: (colon)................................................................................................do nothing, successfully 1-118
comm......................................................................compare sorted files and show differences 1-119
command.........................................................................................execute a simple command 1-121
compress...............................................................................Lempel-Ziv compression of a file 1-123
continue.................................................................skip to next iteration of loop in shell script 1-127
cp...................................................................................................................................copy files 1-128
cpio.......................................................................................archiver to copy and back up files 1-133
csplit .................................................................................split a text file, according to criteria 1-138
ctags ............................................................................produce tags file for ex, more, and vi 1-143
cut......................................................selectively display fields or characters from input lines 1-147
date...............................................................................................set and display date and time 1-150
dc ........................................................................................arbitrary precision desk calculator 1-155
dd................................................................................................copy and convert input blocks 1-168
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