HELP *SHELLSUMM Tom Khabaza, October 1986.
A summary of common "shell" commands; for all users of Poplog on UNIX
(who will be using the "cshell"), these are typed to the "% " prompt. If
you do not understand the meaning of '*' see HELP HELP for an
explanation, that is do:
<ENTER> HELP HELP <RETURN>
All of the commands in this file have more detailed explanations in the
UNIX manual, see HELP *MAN for detail of how to view the on-line manual.
See HELP *SHELL for more details on the SHELL
General Unix Commands:
cat List the contents of a file to the terminal
cd Change to a different working directory, see *CD
cp Copy a file, see *SHELL / MOVING
date Print the date and time
lpr Print a file on the line printer, *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING
lprm Remove a file from the lp, see *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING
lpq Show the queue of the lp, see *SHELL / PRINTING, *PRINTING
logout Log out, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING
ls List the names of files, see *SHELL / LISTING, * LS
mail Read or send mail, see *SHELL / SENDING
man See the Unix manual entry for a Unix command
mkdir Make a new directory, see
more List the contents of a file page by page see man more
mv Move (or rename) a file, see *SHELL / MOVING
passwd Change your password, see *SHELL / PASSWORDS
pwd Show the name of the current working directory
rm Remove files, see *SHELL / DELETING
rmdir Remove a directory
who Who is on the system
POPLOG related commands:
teach Call up ved with a TEACH file
help Call up ved with a HELP file
ved Call up ved (without Prolog or Clisp)
pop11 Call up POP-11, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING
prolog Call up Poplog, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING
clisp Call up Lisp, see *SHELL / RECOGNISING
See also
* SHELL - more detailed explanations of these commands and SHELL
* UNIX - information about the interface between Poplog and Unix
* SYSUTIL - detailed information about the interface between Poplog
and Unix
-----<Copyright University of Sussex 1987. All rights reserved.>-------Author: Tom Khabaza, October 1986.