Linux 1.2.13 - man pages

Installation

init		process control initialization
telinit		process control initialization
inittab		format of the inittab file used by the sysv-com- patible init process

Tasks

vipw		edit the password file
passwd		change login password
npasswd		change login password
group		user group file
chroot		change root directory and execute a program there
users		print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host
groups		print the groups a user is in
df		summarize free disk space
du		summarize disk usage
find		search for files in a directory hierarchy
finger		user information lookup program
ftp		ARPANET file transfer program
getpwent	get password file entry
setpwent	get password file entry
endpwent	get password file entry
endpwnam	get password file entry
endpwuid	get password file entry
last		show listing of last logged in users
lastb		show listing of last logged in users
ps		report process status
rcp		remote file copy
rdist		remote file distribution server program
renice		alter priority of running processes
sum		checksum and count the blocks in a file
syslog		send messages to the system logger
openlog		send messages to the system logger
closelog	send messages to the system logger
telnet		User interface to the TELNET protocol
ftp		ARPANET file transfer program
tty		print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
umask		set file creation mask
uucp		Unix to Unix copy
who		show who is logged on

Network

gethostbyname	get network host entry
gethostbyaddr	get network host entry
sethostent	get network host entry
endhostent	get network host entry
herror		get network host entry
fstab		static information about the filesystems
exports		NFS file systems being exported
mountd		NFS mount daemon
nfsd		NFS service daemon
mount		mount and unmount file systems
umount		mount and unmount file systems
showmount	show mount information for an NFS server

Backup

cpio		copy files to and from archives
dd		convert a file while copying it
mt		control magnetic tape drive operation
tar		The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
dump		filesystem backup
rdump		filesystem backup
restore		restore files or file systems from backups made with dump
rrestore	restore files or file systems from backups made with dump

Software

explodepkg	Extract the contents of a tar+GNUzip package (such as a Slackwa re  software  package)  in  the  current directory
installpkg	install Slackware packages
pkgtool		software package maintenance tool

Tuning

	
netstat		Display active network connections
top		display top CPU processes
uptime		Tell how long the system has been running
w		Show who is logged on and what they are doing
vmstat		Report virtual memory statistics