DOS & UNIX COMPARISON

DOS command	UNIX command	Command Description
cd	cd or chdir	Change directory
chkdsk	du	Check disk space utilization
copy	cp	Copy files
del	rm	Delete files
deltree	rm -r	Remove subdirectory
dir /b	ls	Bare directory listing
dir /s	ls -lR	Directory with subdirectories
	ls -l	Show file sizes & owners

help	man	Read a prepared Help manual
md	mkdir	Make subdirectory
move or ren	mv	Move or Rename files
rm	rmdir	Remove empty subdirectory
type	cat	Type text files to screen
\|more	\|pg	"Pipe More" Page break listings

DOS Utils	UNIX Utils	Command Description
arj	unarj	ARJ archiver/decompressor
edit	joe or pico	BASIC text editor
lharc or lha	lharc	LZH/LHA archiver/compression
pkzip	zip	Create .zip compressed archives
pkunzip	unzip	Unarchive and decompress .zip files

More handy Unix Commands

UNIX command	Command Description
top	Shows you the top processes running on your machine.
ps -aux	Shows you the current processes running on your machine.
du folder	Display size of folder
df -h	Show total disk space usage
du -s	Display size of current folder
du -ks * \|sort -rn \|head	Shows the top ten largest folders and their size.
shutdown -r now	Shutdown Linux with a reboot straight away.

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