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Command's
Purpose
Finds a string of text
in a file
Formats a diskette
Displays command
help
Creates a directory
View a file
Renames a file
Displays your
location in the file
system
Changes directories
with a specified path
(absolute path)
Changes directories
with a relative path
Displays the time
Shows amount of
RAM and use
2 This formats a disk for the DOS filesystem.
3 You can also use info for some commands.
4 The more pager can also be used to page through a file a screen at a time.
5 The mv command can both move a file and, if you want to rename a file in the same directory, you "move" that
file to the same directory with a new name, as in this example.
Appendix B:A Comparison of Common DOS and Linux Commands
MS-DOS Linux
grep
find
format mke2fs
a: (if (or
diskette is
mfor-
in A:)
mat
command man
/?
mkdir mkdir
more less
ren mv
pwd
chdir
cd cd
pathname path-
name
cd .. cd ..
date
time
mem free
Basic Linux Example
grep this word or phrase thisfile.txt
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/fd0 (/dev/fd0
is the Linux equivalent of A:)
2
)
3
man command
mkdir directory
4
less thisfile.txt
mv thisfile.txt thatfile.txt
pwd
cd /directory/directory
cd ..
date
free
5