NT to Unix Command
Conversion
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The table on this page is designed to provide a conversion
of NT commands to their Unix equivalent. If you have any additional commands to add please feel free to email me. Some of the content from this page came from the "Unix-DOS-Windows Rosetta Stone" article which is one of many useful articles available from the University of Missouri Knowledgebase at: |
Miscellaneous/ Unix Only |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| Not case sensitive | Case sensitive (as you'll
soon find out :-) ~ (Home directory) ^Z, trailing & - Execute command in the background chown, chgrp - Change file protection dsmc - Archive files finger, who - Who's logged on fsub, ssub, at - Background processing job ln, ln -s - Make link (alternate name for a file) passwd, yppasswd - Change password pine, mail - Email TAB, ESC, ^D - Command/filename completion write, talk - Terminal to terminal communication |
A |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| attrib attrib +h autoexec.bat |
chmod .xxx (name starts with a period) .cshrc, .login |
C |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| ^C ('^' = the Ctrl key) chkdsk cls copy |
^c, ^Break, ESC df, du, quota clear cp |
D |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| date del dir doskey |
date rm ls (displays filenames only) ls -l (for detailed view) alias |
E |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| edit erase |
pico, vi, emacs rm |
F |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| find |
grep |
H |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| help |
man |
M |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| move |
mv |
P |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| path |
set path lpr, qprt |
R |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
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rename, move |
mv |
S |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| set |
set, setenv |
T |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| time tree type |
date utree, xtree cat, more, view |
W |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| win |
xterm |
X |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| xcopy |
cp -r |
Z |
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| NT Command | Unix Command |
| zip |
gzip, zip, compress |
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